Python Microservices Development
Second Edition
Build efficient and lightweight microservices using the Python tooling ecosystem
Simon Fraser
Tarek Ziadé
BIRMINGHAM—MUMBAI
Python Microservices Development
Second Edition
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Contributors
About the authors
Simon Fraser is a Site Reliability Engineer for Cisco Meraki. He has over twenty years of experience in computing, both developing and running systems. He has worked as a Systems Administrator for an internet service provider; an infrastructure and high-performance computing engineer at the Welcome Sanger Institute, and as a Firefox Release Engineer at Mozilla. He studied Cybernetics and Computer Science at the University of Reading and has also taught academic courses in programming for scientists.
I would like to thank Emma Apted and Helen Cook for their frequent support and encouragement, ranging from proofreading to miming a book opening when I'm clearly not working. My father George Fraser passed on his immeasurable skill at finishing a project just before the deadline, and my mother Elizabeth Fraser showed me how to explain concepts and inform people through years of teaching. This book would also not be possible without Tarek Ziadé's work on the 1st edition and the solid base on which to build, as well as the work of Development Editor Alex Patterson, Reviewer William Kahn-Greene, and Project Editor Rianna Rodrigues.
We might stand on the shoulders of giants, but we also build on a huge structure made by every one of us, so I would also like to thank everyone I've worked with over the years in all my different teams. Yes, even you.
Tarek Ziadé is a Software Engineer, located in Burgundy, France. He works at Elastic, building tools for developers. Before Elastic, he worked at Mozilla for 10 years, and he founded a French Python user group, called AFPy. Tarek has also written several articles about Python for various magazines, and a few books in French and English.
I would like to thank Freya, Suki, Milo, and Amina for being so supportive of all my book projects.
About the reviewer
Will Kahn-Greene has been building things in Python and other languages since the late 90s. He manages the crash ingestion pipeline at Mozilla and maintains several Python libraries. When he's waiting for CI to run tests, he builds things with wood, tends his tomato plants, and cooks for four.