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Python for Geeks

By : Muhammad Asif
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Python for Geeks

By: Muhammad Asif

Overview of this book

Python is a multipurpose language that can be used for multiple use cases. Python for Geeks will teach you how to advance in your career with the help of expert tips and tricks. You'll start by exploring the different ways of using Python optimally, both from the design and implementation point of view. Next, you'll understand the life cycle of a large-scale Python project. As you advance, you'll focus on different ways of creating an elegant design by modularizing a Python project and learn best practices and design patterns for using Python. You'll also discover how to scale out Python beyond a single thread and how to implement multiprocessing and multithreading in Python. In addition to this, you'll understand how you can not only use Python to deploy on a single machine but also use clusters in private as well as in public cloud computing environments. You'll then explore data processing techniques, focus on reusable, scalable data pipelines, and learn how to use these advanced techniques for network automation, serverless functions, and machine learning. Finally, you'll focus on strategizing web development design using the techniques and best practices covered in the book. By the end of this Python book, you'll be able to do some serious Python programming for large-scale complex projects.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Section 1: Python, beyond the Basics
5
Section 2: Advanced Programming Concepts
9
Section 3: Scaling beyond a Single Thread
13
Section 4: Using Python for Web, Cloud, and Network Use Cases

Answers

  1. AWS Beanstalk is a general-purpose PaaS offering for deploying web applications, whereas AWS App Runner is a fully managed service for deploying container-based web applications.
  2. GCP Cloud Function is a serverless, event-driven service for executing a program. The specified event can be triggered from another GCP service or through an HTTP request.
  3. Cloud Dataflow and Cloud Dataproc are two popular services for data processing offered by GCP.
  4. An Apache Beam pipeline is a set of actions that have been defined to load the data, transform the data from one form into another, and write the data to a destination.
  5. PCollection is like an RDD in Apache Spark that holds data elements. In pipeline data processing, a typical PTransform operation takes one or more PCollection objects as input and produces the results as one or more PCollection objects.