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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

Chapter 10. Securing Your Application

With all the chatter about the performance and scalability of an application, and the best practices to ensure an application is stable in the enterprise environment, we have covered a lot. We got to learn about how important the user experience is to make an application successful inside an enterprise. But do you think we are missing something here?

Imagine that we had all the components for building a successful enterprise application and that we were able to make it scale, while also providing a decent response time to the user with the fewest deviations from the expected behavior. However, it's easy for anyone to just access the records from our application. What if there are loopholes that allow a user to gather sensitive data from the application without even performing a login? Yes, that's the missing link: the application security. Inside an enterprise, the security of an application is a really big factor. An application that is not secure may...