Serverless Deployments of Python APIs

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If you are like me, you were starting to get comfortable with the idea of deploying your applications to cloud instances such as EC2s on AWS or droplets on DigitalOcean, when people started to shift away from cloud instances and embrace containers. Maybe now you are getting into containers and Docker, and as is to be expected, the tech world is making a move once again, this time to severless computing. Impossible to ever catch up, right?

In this article I'm going to tell you what a serverless architecture can offer you that the more traditional approaches cannot (and more specifically how it is possible to run your Python web applications without a server!). At the time I'm writing this, AWS has by far the most mature serverless platform, with the Lambda, API Gateway and DynamoDB triad of services at the forefront, so this is the platform I'm going to concentrate on.

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