API and API Design with Python Training in United States of America

Before attending this course, you should have:

• Basic familiarity with any programming or scripting language
• Coding experience in another language serves as an adequate prerequisite

• Client-side Python Scripting to RESTful (and non-RESTful) APIs
• Design RESTful API interfaces with Flask Web Framework
• Overview of Django
• Deploy your Python web apps as Docker containers
• Open SSH sessions and pass commands to remote servers
• Move files via SFTP
• Parse and manipulate popular data structures (JSON, CSV, Excel, and YAML) as pandas dataframes
• Best practice techniques

• Python Review
  
  • Version Control with Git
  • Lists
  • Dictionaries
  • Conditionals (if, elif, else)
  • Loops (for and when)
  • Functions
  • Classes and Methods
  • Using pip
• Working with Data - JSON, YAML, CSV and Excel
  
  • JSON RFC 7159
  • JSON Formatting
  • YAML intro
  • YAML Formatting
  • Python Libraries for decoding JSON, YAML and CSV
  • Reading and Writing to Excel
  • Dataframes and pandas
• SSH Communication and SFTP
  
  • Python and SSH
  • Building an SFTP Client & Server
  • Python and SFTP limitations
  • Paramiko for SSH
  • Netmiko and Major Network Vendors (Cisco, Juniper, Arista)
• Web and RESTful APIs
  
  • Creating an HTTP Client & Server with Python
  • Introduction to REST
  • RESTful API on Etcd keystore (Kubernetes distributed DB)
  • Creating a Python client to interact with API endpoints
  • API dev keys
  • Secure password retrieval
  • Tokens and APIs
  • OAuth v2.0
• API Design Practices
  
  • RESTful Architecture
  • Stubbing code with Swagger
  • Describing Resource functionality (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, etc.)
  • Collections, resources, and URLs
  • Using nouns, not verbs
  • Understanding HTTP status codes
  • Returning data
• Building APIs with Flask
  
  • Flask Overview
  • Decorators
  • Building APIs with Python and Flask
  • APIs returning Jinja2 templating
  • Returning a ‘cookie’
  • Building Sessions
  • Redirecting from URIs
  • Build an API to accept a file upload
  • Overview of Django
• Deploying APIs
  
  • Docker containers
  • Docker build
  • Constructing Docker images
  • Dockerfile
  • Deploying a Flask App on Docker
  • Automating build processes
• Database Integration
  
  • Overview
  • Connecting to Python
  • Read / Write operations
  • Other useful instructions
  • Connecting APIs and SQLite
  • Python and PostgreSQL
  • Python and MongoDB
  • Reading and Writing to Databases with APIs
• Processes and Threads
  
  • Threading
  • Context change
  • Deadlock errors
  • Thread starvation
  • Racing conditions and racing specifics
  • Working with Locks