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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

Boosting the application concurrency


Most of the time when we are building some web application through a framework, the frameworks usually provide a small and easy to run web server. Although these servers are good for use in the development environment to quickly realize the changes and debug through the issues inside the application during the development stage, these servers are not capable of handling the production workloads.

 

Even in the case when the whole application has been developed from scratch, it is generally a good idea to proxy the communication to the web application through use of a reverse proxy. But the question arises is, why do we need to do so? Why shouldn't we just run the web application directly and let it handle the incoming requests. Let's quickly go through all the responsibilities the web application serves:

  • Handling of incoming requests:When a new request arrives at the web application, the web application might need to decide what to do with that request.If...