Overthelastfewyears,therehasbeenamassiveshiftfrommonolithicarchitecturetomicroservices,thankstotheirsmallandindependentdeploymentsthatallowincreasedflexibilityandagiledelivery.Traditionally,virtualmachinesandcontainersweretheprincipalmediumsfordeployingmicroservices,buttheyinvolvedalotofoperationaleffort,configuration,andmaintenance.Morerecently,serverlesscomputinghasgainedpopularityduetoitsbuilt-inautoscalingabilities,reducedoperationalcosts,andincreasedproductivity.BuildingServerlessMicroservicesinPythonbeginsbyintroducingyoutoserverlessmicroservicestructures.YouwillthenlearnhowtocreateyourfirstserverlessdataAPIandtestyourmicroservice.Movingon,you'lldelveintodatamanagementandworkwithserverlesspatterns.Finally,thebookintroducesyoutotheimportanceofsecuringmicroservices.Bytheendofthebook,youwillhavegainedtheskillsyouneedtocombinemicroserviceswithserverlesscomputing,makingtheirdeploymentmucheasierthankstothecloudprovidermanagingtheserversandcapacityplanning.