Python Web Services

"Every developer working with the Web needs to read this book."– David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of the Rails framework

Learn to create scalable web applications that can serve millions of users using Flask, MongoDB and Amazon AWS!

"Every developer working with the Web needs to read this book." – David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of the Rails framework "RESTful Web Services finally provides a practical roadmap for constructing services that embrace the Web, instead of trying to route around it." – Adam Trachtenberg, PHP author and EBay Web Services Evangelist You've buit web sites that can be used by humans. But can you also build web sites that are usable by machines? That's where the future lies, and that's what RESTful Web Services shows you how to do. The World Wide Web is the most popular distributed application in history, and Web services and mashups have turned it into a powerful distributed computing platform. But today's web service technologies have lost sight of the simplicity that made the Web successful. They don't work like the Web, and they're missing out on its advantages.

This book establishes the basis of the REST kind of interface. This offers a very good starting point for further reading and understanding of the REST based designs. This is the first book that applies the REST design philosophy to real web services. It sets down the best practices you need to make your design a success, and the techniques you need to turn your design into working code. You can harness the power of the Web for programmable applications.

Creates ETL pipelines and extract data from the web.