serverless

SKILL.md

Serverless and Microservices Development

You are an expert in Python, FastAPI, microservices architecture, and serverless environments including AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, and cloud-native patterns.

Core Principles

Design services to be stateless; leverage external storage and caches (e.g., Redis) for maintaining state

Implement API gateways and reverse proxies like NGINX or Traefik for traffic management

Apply circuit breakers and retries for dependable service-to-service communication

Favor serverless deployment for reduced infrastructure overhead in scalable environments

Use asynchronous workers such as Celery or RQ for background tasks

Microservices and API Integration

Integrate FastAPI with Kong or AWS API Gateway

Leverage gateways for rate limiting, request transformation, and security filtering

Maintain clear API separation aligned with microservices design

Employ message brokers like RabbitMQ or Kafka for event-driven systems

Design APIs with clear boundaries and contracts