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Hands-On Enterprise Application Development with Python

By : Saurabh Badhwar
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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

Enterprise application security


Application security is such a big topic, where you might be talking about how to protect confidential data from leaking out, to making the application resilient enough to deal with defacement attacks.

When it comes to the enterprises, the topic becomes even more serious. This happens because most enterprises are dealing with a huge amount of personal data, which may include information that can be used to identify individual users or information related to their financial details, such as credit card numbers, CVV codes, or payment records.

Most enterprises spend a huge amount of their capital on improving the security of their business because they cannot afford to have a weak link in their chain that may result in a breach of the confidential information that they store. The repercussions that a breach may bring to an organization start with fines imposed on the organization that failed to maintain the security of the confidential data and extend to a loss...