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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

The need for optimizing frontends


The UI of the application is one of its most important user facing components. It decides how the user is going to perceive the application. A smooth and fluid frontend goes a long way in defining the user experience with the application.

This requirement for a smooth user experience brings in the need for optimizing the application frontend, in that it provides an easy to use interface, fast response times, and fluidity in the operations. If we go ahead and look toward the web 2.0 companies such as Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, and so on, they spend a huge amount of resources just on optimizing their frontends to shave off a few milliseconds of the rendering time. That is how important an optimized frontend is.

Components of an optimized frontend

We are discussing optimizing the frontends. But what does an optimized frontend consist of? How can we decide whether a frontend is optimized or not? Let's take a look.

An optimized frontend has several components, where...