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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

Utilizing web storage


Any web application developer who has worked on any application that involves even a little user management will for sure have heard about web cookies, which in essence provide a mechanism for storing some of the information on the client side.

Utilizing cookies provides an easy way through which we can maintain small amounts of user data on the client side and can read it multiple times until the cookies expire. But as easy as it is to deal with cookies, there are certain limitations that restrict the cookies being used for anything useful, other than maintaining a small amount of application state on the client side. Some of these limitations are as follows:

  • Cookies are transferred with every request, hence adding to the data that is transferred with every request
  • Cookies allow for storing a little amount of data that is restricted to a maximum of 4 KB

Now, the question that comes is, what can we do if we want to store more data or we want to avoid fetching the same set...