diff --git a/.flake8 b/.flake8
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4716794
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.flake8
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+[flake8]
+max-line-length = 120
+exclude = .git,__pycache__,htmlcov,.cache,.tox,env,dist,doc,*egg,build
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/HISTORY.md b/HISTORY.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..68cf408
--- /dev/null
+++ b/HISTORY.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+#History
+
+0.2.0 Level up to Apistar 0.5.x
+
+0.1.0 Initial app
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index ee84ad7..964504d 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
 # news
 
-A ReSTful api for storing and retrieving news articles
\ No newline at end of file
+A ReSTful api for storing and retrieving news articles
+
+## Pip tools
+This project uses pip-tools for developement. Reference the [project page](https://github.com/jazzband/pip-tools) for usage instructions.
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/dev_requirements.in b/dev_requirements.in
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4c8ad1e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev_requirements.in
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+pip-tools
+pytest
+tox
+flake8
+setuptools >= 38.6.0
+wheel >= 0.31.0
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/dev_requirements.txt b/dev_requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7dc9f6b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev_requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+#
+# This file is autogenerated by pip-compile
+# To update, run:
+#
+#    pip-compile --output-file dev_requirements.txt dev_requirements.in
+#
+--trusted-host pypi.python.org
+--trusted-host git.aigalatic.com
+
+atomicwrites==1.1.5       # via pytest
+attrs==18.1.0             # via pytest
+click==6.7                # via pip-tools
+first==2.0.1              # via pip-tools
+flake8==3.5.0
+mccabe==0.6.1             # via flake8
+more-itertools==4.2.0     # via pytest
+pip-tools==2.0.2
+pluggy==0.6.0             # via pytest, tox
+py==1.5.4                 # via pytest, tox
+pycodestyle==2.3.1        # via flake8
+pyflakes==1.6.0           # via flake8
+pytest==3.6.2
+six==1.11.0               # via more-itertools, pip-tools, pytest, tox
+tox==3.0.0
+virtualenv==16.0.0        # via tox
+wheel==0.31.1
+
+# The following packages are considered to be unsafe in a requirements file:
+# setuptools
diff --git a/news/__init__.py b/news/__init__.py
index 526ecad..44a0cc8 100644
--- a/news/__init__.py
+++ b/news/__init__.py
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-from .app import application_factory
-
+from .app import application_factory  # noqa: F401
diff --git a/news/app.py b/news/app.py
index 282d2bd..fbc05ae 100644
--- a/news/app.py
+++ b/news/app.py
@@ -1,13 +1,8 @@
-from apistar import Include, Route, http
-from apistar.interfaces import Router
-from apistar.frameworks.wsgi import WSGIApp as App
-from apistar.backends import sqlalchemy_backend
-from apistar.backends.sqlalchemy_backend import Session
-from apistar.handlers import docs_urls, static_urls
-
-from .models import Base, NewsArticle, NewsSource
-from .renders import JSONRenderer
+from apistar import Route, http, App
+from sqlalchemy import create_engine
+from .models import NewsArticle, NewsSource
 from .schema import NewsSourceSchema, NewsArticleSchema
+from .util import Session, SQLAlchemySession, SQLAlchemyHook
 
 news_source_schema = NewsSourceSchema()
 news_article_schema = NewsArticleSchema()
@@ -15,22 +10,22 @@ news_article_schema = NewsArticleSchema()
 
 def get_sources(session: Session):
     sources = session.query(NewsSource).all()
-    return http.Response(news_source_schema.dump(sources, many=True).data, status=200)
+    return http.JSONResponse(news_source_schema.dump(sources, many=True).data, status_code=200)
 
 
-def add_source(session: Session, request_data: http.RequestData, router: Router):
+def add_source(session: Session, request_data: http.RequestData, app: App):
     news_source_data, errors = news_source_schema.load(request_data)
     if errors:
         msg = {"message": "400 Bad Request", "error": errors}
-        return http.Response(msg, status=400)
+        return http.JSONResponse(msg, status_code=400)
 
     news_source = NewsSource(**news_source_data)
     session.add(news_source)
     session.flush()
 
-    headers = {"Location": router.reverse_url('get_source', {"id": news_source.id})}
+    headers = {"Location": app.reverse_url('get_source', {"id": news_source.id})}
 
-    return http.Response(news_source_schema.dump(news_source).data, status=201, headers=headers)
+    return http.JSONResponse(news_source_schema.dump(news_source).data, status_code=201, headers=headers)
 
 
 def delete_source(session: Session, id: int):
@@ -38,47 +33,47 @@ def delete_source(session: Session, id: int):
     news_source = session.query(NewsSource).filter_by(id=id).one_or_none()
     if news_source is None:
         msg = {"message": "404 Not Found"}
-        return http.Response(msg, status=404)
+        return http.JSONResponse(msg, status_code=404)
 
     msg = {"message": "200 OK"}
-    return http.Response(msg, status=200)
+    return http.JSONResponse(msg, status_code=200)
 
 
 def get_source(session: Session, id: int):
     news_source = session.query(NewsSource).filter_by(id=id).one_or_none()
     if news_source is None:
         msg = {"message": "404 Not Found"}
-        return http.Response(msg, status=404)
+        return http.JSONResponse(msg, status_code=404)
 
-    return http.Response(news_source_schema.dump(news_source).data, status=200)
+    return http.JSONResponse(news_source_schema.dump(news_source).data, status_code=200)
 
 
 def get_articles(session: Session):
     articles = session.query(NewsArticle).all()
-    return http.Response(news_article_schema.dump(articles, many=True).data, status=200)
+    return http.JSONResponse(news_article_schema.dump(articles, many=True).data, status_code=200)
 
 
-def add_article(session: Session, request_data: http.RequestData, router: Router):
+def add_article(session: Session, request_data: http.RequestData, app: App):
     news_article_data, errors = news_article_schema.load(request_data)
     if errors:
         msg = {"message": "400 Bad Request", "error": errors}
-        return http.Response(msg, status=400)
+        return http.JSONResponse(msg, status_code=400)
     news_article = NewsArticle(**news_article_data)
 
     session.add(news_article)
     session.flush
 
-    headers = {"Location": router.reverse_url('get_source', {"id": news_article.id})}
+    headers = {"Location": app.reverse_url('get_source', {"id": news_article.id})}
 
-    return http.Response(news_article_schema.dump(news_article), status=201, headers=headers)
+    return http.JSONResponse(news_article_schema.dump(news_article), status_code=201, headers=headers)
 
 
 def get_article(session: Session, id: int):
     news_article = session.query(NewsArticle).filter_by(id=id).one_or_none()
     if news_article is None:
         msg = {"message": "404 Not Found"}
-        return http.Response(msg, status=404)
-    return http.Response(news_article_schema.dump(news_article), status=200)
+        return http.JSONResponse(msg, status_code=404)
+    return http.JSONResponse(news_article_schema.dump(news_article), status_code=200)
 
 
 def delete_article(session: Session, id):
@@ -86,10 +81,10 @@ def delete_article(session: Session, id):
     news_article = session.query(NewsArticle).filter_by(id=id).one_or_none()
     if news_article is None:
         msg = {"message": "404 Not Found"}
-        return http.Response(msg, status=404)
+        return http.JSONResponse(msg, status_code=404)
 
     msg = {"message": "200 OK"}
-    return http.Response(msg, status=200)
+    return http.JSONResponse(msg, status_code=200)
 
 
 routes = [
@@ -101,29 +96,22 @@ routes = [
     Route('/articles', 'POST', add_article),
     Route('/articles/{id}', 'GET', get_article),
     Route('/articles/{id}', 'DELETE', delete_article),
-    Include('/docs', docs_urls),
-    Include('/static', static_urls)
 ]
 
-_settings = {
-    'DATABASE': {
-        'URL': 'postgresql://apistar:local@localhost/news',
-        'METADATA': Base.metadata
-    },
-    'RENDERERS': [JSONRenderer()]
-}
-
 routes = routes
 
-commands = sqlalchemy_backend.commands
+components = [SQLAlchemySession(engine=create_engine('postgresql://apistar:local@localhost/news'))]
 
-components = sqlalchemy_backend.components
+hooks = [SQLAlchemyHook()]
 
 
-def application_factory(settings={}):
+def application_factory():
     """Returns an instance of Cookie API"""
-    app_settings = {**_settings, **settings}
-    return App(settings=app_settings,
-               commands=commands,
-               components=components,
+    return App(components=components,
+               event_hooks=hooks,
                routes=routes)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    app = application_factory()
+    app.serve('0.0.0.0', 8080, debug=True)
diff --git a/news/models.py b/news/models.py
index 3dec3fa..0cc35b4 100644
--- a/news/models.py
+++ b/news/models.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declarative_base
-from sqlalchemy import Column, Integer, String, ForeignKey, DateTime, Boolean, Numeric, BigInteger, Text, Table, ARRAY
+from sqlalchemy import Column, ForeignKey, DateTime, BigInteger, Text, Table, ARRAY
 from sqlalchemy.orm import relationship, backref
-from sqlalchemy.sql import expression, and_
+from sqlalchemy.sql import expression
 from sqlalchemy.ext.compiler import compiles
 from sqlalchemy.types import DateTime as DateTimeType
 from sqlalchemy.orm.exc import NoResultFound
diff --git a/news/renders.py b/news/renders.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 59bb97f..0000000
--- a/news/renders.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-import datetime as dt
-import decimal
-import json
-
-from apistar import http
-from apistar.renderers import Renderer
-
-
-def extended_encoder(obj):
-    """JSON encoder function with support for ISO 8601 datetime serialization and Decimal to float casting"""
-    if isinstance(obj, dt.datetime):
-        return obj.timestamp()
-    elif isinstance(obj, decimal.Decimal):
-        return float(obj)
-
-
-class JSONRenderer(Renderer):
-    """JSON Render with support for ISO 8601 datetime serialization and Decimal to float casting"""
-    media_type = 'application/json'
-    charset = None
-
-    def render(self, data: http.ResponseData) -> bytes:
-        return json.dumps(data, default=extended_encoder).encode('utf-8')
diff --git a/news/schema.py b/news/schema.py
index 5031c39..fd1b3f3 100644
--- a/news/schema.py
+++ b/news/schema.py
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ from marshmallow import Schema, fields
 
 class PassDateTime(fields.DateTime):
     """Used to Pass Datetime deserialization """
+
     def _deserialize(self, value, attr, data):
         if isinstance(value, dt.datetime):
             return value
@@ -40,14 +41,17 @@ class NewsSourceSchema(Schema):
     created_date = UnixTimestamp(dump_only=True)
     modified_date = UnixTimestamp(dump_only=True)
     url = fields.URL()
-    source_name = fields.Str(required=True, error_messages={'required': 'NewsSource name is a required field'})
-    source_type = fields.Str(required=True, error_messages={'required': 'NewsSource type is a required field'})
+    source_name = fields.Str(required=True,
+                             error_messages={'required': 'NewsSource name is a required field'})
+    source_type = fields.Str(required=True,
+                             error_messages={'required': 'NewsSource type is a required field'})
 
     # TODO add support for Categories
 
     class Meta:
         ordered = True
 
+
 # TODO deserialization of timestamp to
 class NewsArticleSchema(Schema):
     id = fields.Int(dump_only=True)
@@ -61,7 +65,8 @@ class NewsArticleSchema(Schema):
     authors = fields.List(fields.Str())
     # published_date = fields.DateTime()
     published_date = PassDateTime()
-    news_blob = fields.Str(required=True, error_messages={'required': 'NewsArticle must include news content'})
+    news_blob = fields.Str(required=True,
+                           error_messages={'required': 'NewsArticle must include news content'})
 
     # TODO add support for Tags
 
diff --git a/news/util.py b/news/util.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7292a9d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/news/util.py
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+import inspect
+import typing
+from apistar import Component
+from apistar.http import Response
+from sqlalchemy.engine import Engine
+from sqlalchemy.orm import sessionmaker, scoped_session
+
+DBSession = scoped_session(sessionmaker())
+
+Session = typing.TypeVar("Session")
+
+
+class SQLAlchemySession(Component):
+    def __init__(self, engine=None):
+        if not isinstance(engine, Engine):
+            raise ValueError('SQLAlchemySession must be instantiated with a sqlalchemy.engine.Engine object')
+        self.engine = engine
+        DBSession.configure(bind=self.engine)
+
+    def resolve(self):
+        return DBSession()
+
+    def can_handle_parameter(self, parameter: inspect.Parameter) -> bool:
+        return parameter.annotation is Session
+
+
+class SQLAlchemyHook:
+    def on_request(self, session: Session):
+        return
+
+    def on_response(self, session: Session, response: Response):
+        DBSession.remove()
+        return response
+
+    def on_error(self, session: Session, response: Response):
+        session.rollback()
+        DBSession.remove()
+        return response
diff --git a/requirements.in b/requirements.in
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2adda50
--- /dev/null
+++ b/requirements.in
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+apistar
+psycopg2
+marshmallow
+SQLAlchemy
+
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 7ddafb4..a631118 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,20 +1,24 @@
-apistar==0.3.9
-certifi==2017.11.5
-chardet==3.0.4
-colorama==0.3.9
-coreapi==2.3.3
-coreschema==0.0.4
-idna==2.6
-itypes==1.1.0
-Jinja2==2.9.6
-MarkupSafe==1.0
-marshmallow==2.15.0
-psycopg2==2.7.3.2
-py==1.4.34
-pytest==3.2.3
-requests==2.18.4
-SQLAlchemy==1.1.15
-uritemplate==3.0.0
-urllib3==1.22
-Werkzeug==0.12.2
-whitenoise==3.3.1
+#
+# This file is autogenerated by pip-compile
+# To update, run:
+#
+#    pip-compile --output-file requirements.txt requirements.in
+#
+--trusted-host pypi.python.org
+--trusted-host git.aigalatic.com
+
+apistar==0.5.40
+certifi==2018.4.16        # via requests
+chardet==3.0.4            # via requests
+click==6.7                # via apistar
+idna==2.7                 # via requests
+jinja2==2.10              # via apistar
+markupsafe==1.0           # via jinja2
+marshmallow==2.15.3
+psycopg2==2.7.5
+pyyaml==3.12              # via apistar
+requests==2.19.1          # via apistar
+sqlalchemy==1.2.9
+urllib3==1.23             # via requests
+werkzeug==0.14.1          # via apistar
+whitenoise==3.3.1         # via apistar
diff --git a/scripts/wsgi_app.py b/scripts/wsgi_app.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1eb5c34
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/wsgi_app.py
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+from news import application_factory
+
+app = application_factory()
+
+
+def main():
+    app.serve('0.0.0.0', 8080, debug=True)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6b00d72
--- /dev/null
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -0,0 +1,79 @@
+from setuptools import setup, find_packages
+
+with open('README.md') as readme_file:
+    readme = readme_file.read()
+
+with open('HISTORY.md') as history_file:
+    history = history_file.read()
+
+requirements = [
+    'apistar==0.5.40',
+    'certifi==2018.4.16',  # via requests
+    'chardet==3.0.4',  # via requests
+    'click==6.7',  # via apistar
+    'idna==2.7',  # via requests
+    'jinja2==2.10',  # via apistar
+    'markupsafe==1.0',  # via jinja2
+    'marshmallow==2.15.3',
+    'psycopg2==2.7.5',
+    'pyyaml==3.12',  # via apistar
+    'requests==2.19.1',  # via apistar
+    'sqlalchemy==1.2.9',
+    'urllib3==1.23',  # via requests
+    'werkzeug==0.14.1',  # via apistar
+    'whitenoise==3.3.1',  # via apistar
+]
+
+dev_requirements = [
+    'atomicwrites==1.1.5',  # via pytest
+    'attrs==18.1.0',  # via pytest
+    'click==6.7',  # via pip-tools
+    'first==2.0.1',  # via pip-tools
+    'flake8==3.5.0',
+    'mccabe==0.6.1',  # via flake8
+    'more-itertools==4.2.0',  # via pytest
+    'pip-tools==2.0.2',
+    'pluggy==0.6.0',  # via pytest, tox
+    'py==1.5.4',  # via pytest, tox
+    'pycodestyle==2.3.1',  # via flake8
+    'pyflakes==1.6.0',  # via flake8
+    'pytest==3.6.2',
+    'six==1.11.0',  # via more-itertools, pip-tools, pytest, tox
+    'tox==3.0.0',
+    'virtualenv==16.0.0',  # via tox
+    'wheel==0.31.1',
+]
+
+setup(
+    name='news',
+    version='0.2.0',
+    description="A ReSTful api for storing and retrieving news articles",
+    long_description=readme + '\n\n' + history,
+    long_description_content_type='text/markdown',
+    author="Drew Bednar",
+    author_email='drew@androiddrew.com',
+    url='https://git.aigalactic.com/Spyglass/news',
+    packages=find_packages(include=['news', 'scripts']),
+    include_package_data=True,
+    install_requires=requirements,
+    license='BSD',
+    keywords='news spyglass',
+    classifiers=[
+        'Development Status :: 2 - Pre-Alpha',
+        'Environment :: Backend',
+        'Intended Audience :: Developers',
+        'License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License',
+        'Natural Language :: English',
+        'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.5',
+        'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.6',
+    ],
+    extras_require={
+        'dev': dev_requirements,
+    },
+    entry_points={
+        'console_scripts': [
+            'wsgi_serve=scripts.wsgi_app:main'
+        ]
+    },
+
+)
diff --git a/tests/test_renders.py b/tests/test_renders.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 5b9c274..0000000
--- a/tests/test_renders.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-import datetime as dt
-from decimal import Decimal
-import json
-
-from news.renders import extended_encoder, JSONRenderer
-
-
-def test_extended_encoder_date_parsing():
-    test_date = dt.datetime(2017, 5, 10)
-    assert test_date.timestamp() == extended_encoder(test_date)
-
-
-def test_extended_encoder_decimal_casting():
-    test_decimal = Decimal('1.0')
-    assert 1.0 == extended_encoder(test_decimal)
-
-
-def test_render_with_extended_encoder():
-    test_date = dt.datetime(2017, 5, 10)
-    test_decimal = Decimal('0.1')
-    expected = dict(my_date=1494388800.0, my_float=0.1)
-    test_response = dict(my_date=test_date, my_float=test_decimal)
-    assert json.dumps(expected).encode('utf-8') == JSONRenderer().render(test_response)
diff --git a/wsgi_app.py b/wsgi_app.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 92f1090..0000000
--- a/wsgi_app.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-from news import application_factory
-
-# Override base application settings here
-settings = {}
-
-app = application_factory(settings)
-
-if __name__ == "__main__":
-    app.main()
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