Build a REST API Using Python and Deploy it to Microsoft Azure

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Build a REST API Using Python and Deploy it to Microsoft Azure

Intermediate

43 Lessons

2h 30min

Certificate of Completion

Build a REST API Using Python and Deploy it to Microsoft Azure

1 Assessment

27 Playgrounds

85 Illustrations

Takeaway Skills

Understand the concept of an API

Learn about FastAPI Python web framework

Learn to implement Optical Character Recognition

Learn and understand different services provided by Azure

Get familiarized with Git and GitHub

Build and Deploy an API to Microsoft Azure App Services

Course Overview

In this course, you will learn how to build a REST API using a lighter web framework for Python, i.e., FastAPI. You will learn the basics of FastAPI and learn how to implement parallel processing in Python APIs. Finally, you will deploy your API on Microsoft Azure and build a Continuous Integration/Continuous Development (CI/CD) Pipeline using Github.

Course Content

1

Overview of the Course

Introduction to the Course

2

Building Blocks of an API in Python

Introduction to REST APIs Structure of a Request and Response Synchronous vs. Asynchronous Web Apps Concurrency vs. Parallel Programming Async-Await in Python Concurrent Programming in Python

3

Learn the Basics of FastAPI

Introduction to FastAPI Create First App Using FastAPI Interactive API Docs - Feature of FastAPI Path Parameters in FastAPI Query Parameters in FastAPI Default and Optional Query Parameters in FastAPI Request Body in FastAPI Implement Background Tasks in FastAPI Implement API With Parallel Processing FastAPI Quiz

4

Optical Character Recognition API Using Tesseract - Project 1

Tesseract and Pytesseract for OCR Perform OCR Using Python Implement OCR API Using FastAPI - 1 Implement OCR API Using FastAPI - 2 Implement OCR API Using FastAPI - 3

5

Cloud and Microsoft Azure Services

Introduction to the Cloud Introduction to Microsoft Azure and Its Basic Terminologies Azure App Service Azure Cognitive Services Azure Application Insights Basic Git Commands Cloud and Microsoft Azure Quiz

6

Text Analytics API Using Azure Cognitive Services - Project 2

4 Lessons

7

Deploy the REST API on Microsoft Azure

8 Lessons

Pop Quiz

Assessment

8

Appendix

2 Lessons

COURSE AUTHOR

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