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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

The shift toward microservices


Over the last few years, developers have been trying to experiment with new ways in which they can develop applications. The aim of this is to reduce the time of development life cycles, increasing the ability to ship projects faster into production, increasing the decoupling between the components so that they can be developed independently, and improving the parallelism of the teams working on the development of the application.

With this came the development technique of using microservices, which helped in solving the aforementioned use cases. In this approach, the application is not a single large repository of code where all the components are placed together, and where a single change to any of the components requires the deployment of the whole application again. First, let's look at how the microservices model differs from the monolithic model and then see what advantages there are in following the microservices approach.

Monolithic development model...