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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

Summary


In this chapter, we went through the concept of design patterns and how they can help us solve some of the commonly encountered problems in designing our applications. We then went through how to decide upon which design pattern to use, and if it is compulsory to choose one of the patterns that has already been defined. Moving further in the chapter, we explored some of the object-oriented capabilities of Python as a language, and also explored some examples of implementing abstract classes and metaclasses in Python, and how we can use them to build other classes and modify their behavior.

Equipped with the knowledge of object-oriented Python, we moved on to implement some of the common design patterns, such as the Singleton and Factory patterns in Python, and also explored the MVC pattern, learning about what problems they try to solve.

Now with the knowledge of design patterns with us, it is time for us to understand how we can make the process of handling the data inside our application...