Gain insights into building REST APIs with FastAPI, explore parallel processing in Python, and discover how to deploy APIs on Microsoft Azure with a CI/CD pipeline using GitHub.

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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.

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

# Intro to concurrent programming

**Concurrent programming** refers to when an application is making progress on more than one task at the same time (concurrently). If the computer has only one CPU, the application may not make progress or execute on more than one task at the same time, but more than one task is being processed at a time inside the application. It does not finish one task before it begins the next.
> Concurrency means executing multiple tasks at the same time but not necessarily simultaneously.

Let’s look at an example: Suppose you went to purchase a coke bottle. You see that there are two queues in front of the vending machine. At a time, only one person from a queue can get the bottle, but the queues are in progress of getting the coke. See the visualization below to understand it better and then look at the corresponding visualization for a computer process.

Understand the concept of concurrency and parallel processing/programming.

Overview of the Course

Building Blocks of an API in Python

Learn the Basics of FastAPI

Optical Character Recognition API Using Tesseract - Project 1

Cloud and Microsoft Azure Services

Text Analytics API Using Azure Cognitive Services - Project 2

Deploy the REST API on Microsoft Azure

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Appendix

Concurrency vs. Parallel Programming

Intro to concurrent programming