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Hands-On Software Engineering with Python

By : Brian Allbee, Nimesh Verma
Book Image

Hands-On Software Engineering with Python

By: Brian Allbee, Nimesh Verma

Overview of this book

Software Engineering is about more than just writing code—it includes a host of soft skills that apply to almost any development effort, no matter what the language, development methodology, or scope of the project. Being a senior developer all but requires awareness of how those skills, along with their expected technical counterparts, mesh together through a project's life cycle. This book walks you through that discovery by going over the entire life cycle of a multi-tier system and its related software projects. You'll see what happens before any development takes place, and what impact the decisions and designs made at each step have on the development process. The development of the entire project, over the course of several iterations based on real-world Agile iterations, will be executed, sometimes starting from nothing, in one of the fastest growing languages in the world—Python. Application of practices in Python will be laid out, along with a number of Python-specific capabilities that are often overlooked. Finally, the book will implement a high-performance computing solution, from first principles through complete foundation.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
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Programming versus Software Engineering

Anatomy of a Service

   The next logical chunk of functionality to attack in hms_sys is the Artisan Gateway Service. This service waits for input from either Artisan or Central Office end users, creating or updating object data as needed, and perhaps synchronizing that data with the web store system's database. Both of the end user applications are expected to communicate with the Artisan Gateway Service on a completely random basis; whenever someone wants to make a change to the data, it'll be ready and waiting to process that request.

Before we can really implement this service, however, we need to work out how any service can or should work, written in Python. To that end, we will have to examine and understand the following:

  • The basic implementation of the structure of a service, including the following:
    • Options for managing the configuration of a service...