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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

Components of serverless architecture


As we have seen, the serverless architecture provides us a way to develop applications where we are only responsible for writing the logic behind the applications, and relieves us of the worry of how the infrastructure will be managed for running the application and how the application will scale up and down based on the number of requests.

But what powers this architecture? Let's try to spend some time taking a look at how the different components inside the architecture work to provide a serverless development approach toward application development.

As discussed earlier, the serverless approach to application development is made possible through the use of two technologies that have came into existence recently in the cloud-computing landscape. These technologies, BaaS and FaaS, provide the foundations for building serverless applications. Let's take a look at them.

Backend as a service

Most of the applications that we develop share a common set of functionalities...