Serverless computing is great for utilizing machines and setting up storage for data without having to provision your own hardware.
APIs allow devs to use external information in their applications.
The key characteristics of serverless computing are it takes milliseconds to provision them, there is no administrative burden, magaged by the provider, auto-scale, no need to plan for capacity, they are stateless, and have high availability.
To get started with Vercel all you need to do is create an account, select a plan and choose your framework
An Application Programming Interface(API) is a comuncation layer that allows systems to talk to eachother with out having to understand exactly what the others do. source In Python, make sure you have the requests library installed which will let you use the majority of APIs out there. External APIs that have data can be consumed and manipulated in Python.
The requests library allows users to fetch data from a huge variety of external APIs with the normal HTTP requests syntax: GET, POST, PUT, DELETE. An example of a get request would be response = requests.get('an-api-website.com/api')