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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

Chapter 12: Building Serverless Functions using Python

Serverless computing is a new model of cloud computing that separates the management of physical or virtual servers and infrastructure-level software, such as database systems, from the application itself. This model allows developers to solely focus on application development and enables someone else to manage the underlying infrastructure resources. Cloud providers are the best option to use to adopt this model. Containers are not only opportune for complex deployments, but they are also a breakthrough technology for the serverless computing era. In addition to containers, there is another form of serverless computing, which is known as Function as a Service (FaaS). In this new paradigm, cloud providers offer a platform to develop and run application functions or serverless functions, usually in response to an event or as a direct call to those functions. All public cloud providers, such as Amazon, Google, Microsoft, IBM, and...