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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

Building microservices-based applications

Before going into the implementation details of microservices, it is important to analyze several microservice frameworks and deployment options. We will start with a microservices framework available in Python.

Learning microservice development options in Python

In Python, we have a plethora of frameworks and libraries available for microservice development. We cannot enumerate all the available options, but it is worth highlighting the most popular and those that have some different feature sets. These options are described next:

  • Flask: This is a lightweight framework that can be used to build Web Service Gateway Interface (WSGI)-based microservices. Note that WSGI is based on a request-response synchronous design pattern. We already used Flask and its RESTful extension to build a REST API application in Chapter 10, Using Python for Web Development and REST API. Since Flask is a popular web and API development framework, it...