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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 need for concurrency


Most of the time, when we are building fairly simple applications, we do not require concurrency. Simple, sequential programming works just fine, in which one step executes after the completion of another. But as application use cases become more and more complex, and there are an increased number of tasks that can easily be pushed into the background to improve the application's user experience, we end up revolving around the concept of concurrency.

Concurrency is a different beast in itself and makes the task of programming much more complex. But regardless of the added complexity, concurrency also brings a lot of features to improve the user experience of applications.

Before we dive into the question of why we may require the support of concurrency in our enterprise applications, let's first look at a simple example in which we will see concurrency used in our day-to-day lives.

Concurrency in GUI applications

The hardware we have become accustomed to using has became...