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Hands-On Enterprise Application Development with Python

By : Saurabh Badhwar
Book Image

Hands-On Enterprise Application Development with Python

By: Saurabh Badhwar

Overview of this book

Dynamically typed languages like Python are continuously improving. With the addition of exciting new features and a wide selection of modern libraries and frameworks, Python has emerged as an ideal language for developing enterprise applications. Hands-On Enterprise Application Development with Python will show you how to build effective applications that are stable, secure, and easily scalable. The book is a detailed guide to building an end-to-end enterprise-grade application in Python. You will learn how to effectively implement Python features and design patterns that will positively impact your application lifecycle. The book also covers advanced concurrency techniques that will help you build a RESTful application with an optimized frontend. Given that security and stability are the foundation for an enterprise application, you’ll be trained on effective testing, performance analysis, and security practices, and understand how to embed them in your codebase during the initial phase. You’ll also be guided in how to move on from a monolithic architecture to one that is service oriented, leveraging microservices and serverless deployment techniques. By the end of the book, you will have become proficient at building efficient enterprise applications in Python.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Summary


In this chapter, we briefly covered the changing programming landscape and explored how the Python ecosystem has changed over the years. We looked at how Python, given the fact that it allows quick prototyping, and has a vast array of well-supported libraries and an open community, is quickly rising to become the main choice for the development of large-scale applications in enterprises that require long-term support and easy integration with existing systems. 

We then went on to introduce the demo application, BugZot, that we will be building throughout the course of this book, and defined the functionalities that will be required from the application.

The last section of the chapter covered the requirement-gathering process for developing an enterprise application in a brief, looking at the different stakeholders, such as the hands-on users and the management users, and categorizing the requirements into functional and nonfunctional requirements. We also looked at the importance of prioritizing the requirements.

With the basic knowledge of the environment with which we are going to work on during the course of the book, we are now ready to take a deep dive into the first important aspect of the Enterprise application development which deals with how we layout the code base of our application in production which involves, how a particular set of objects are created and utilized in the application while focusing on the increased re-usability of the modules. The next chapter focuses on this important aspect which is also known as the Design patterns and cover the different types of patterns and how they can be used during the development of your application.