Part 2: Data-Centric and Communication-Focused Microservices Concerns and Issues

In this part of the book, we will be exploring other FastAPI components and features to solve other design patterns that the API framework can build, looking at data, communication, messaging, reliability, and security. External modules will also be highlighted in order to pursue other behavior and frameworks, such as ORM and reactive programming.

This part comprises the following chapters:

• Chapter 5, Connecting to a Relational Database
• Chapter 6, Using a Non-Relational Database
• Chapter 7, Securing the REST APIs
• Chapter 8, Creating Coroutines, Events, and Message-Driven Transactions