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Software Architecture with Python

By : Anand Balachandran Pillai
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Software Architecture with Python

By: Anand Balachandran Pillai

Overview of this book

This book starts by explaining how Python fits into an application's architecture. As you move along, you will get to grips with architecturally significant demands and how to determine them. Later, you’ll gain a complete understanding of the different architectural quality requirements for building a product that satisfies business needs, such as maintainability/reusability, testability, scalability, performance, usability, and security. You will also use various techniques such as incorporating DevOps, continuous integration, and more to make your application robust. You will discover when and when not to use object orientation in your applications, and design scalable applications. The focus is on building the business logic based on the business process documentation, and understanding which frameworks to use and when to use them. The book also covers some important patterns that should be taken into account while solving design problems, as well as those in relatively new domains such as the Cloud. By the end of this book, you will have understood the ins and outs of Python so that you can make critical design decisions that not just live up to but also surpassyour clients’ expectations.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Software Architecture with Python
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

Microservice architecture


Microservice architecture is an architectural style of developing a single application as a suite of small independent services, each running in its own process and communicating via light-weight mechanisms—typically, using HTTP protocol.

Microservices are independently deployable components, and usually, have zero or minimalistic central management or configuration.

Microservices can be thought of as a specific implementation style for Service Oriented Architectures (SOA), where, instead of building a monolith application top-down, the application is built as a dynamic group of mutually interacting, independent services.

Traditionally, enterprise applications were built in a monolithic pattern, typically consisting of these three layers:

  1. A client-side User Interface (UI) layer consisting of HTML and JavaScript.

  2. A server-side application consisting of the business logic.

  3. A database and data access layer, which holds the business data.

On the other hand, a microservices...