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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

Engineering the application for scalability


At a time when most of the enterprise projects resort to using one framework or another, which usually decides how the application will be served during the production phase, it is still a good idea to take a look beneath the surface and understand how to develop the application while keeping the scalability of the application in perspective.

In this section, we will take a look at the different techniques that can help us build a scalable application, even when we are not using someper-builtframework which can do it for us.During the course of this section, we will see how we can use thread/process pooling to handle multiple clients at the same time, and why the pooling of resources is necessary and what prevents us from starting a separate thread or process for dealing with every other incoming request.

But before we dive into the concepts of how we can utilize the thread pooling or process pooling in the application development, let's first take...