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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

Understanding the deployment options for serverless functions

Using a virtual machine or another runtime resource on public clouds for sporadically accessed applications might not be a commercially attractive solution. In such situations, serverless functions come to the rescue. Here, a cloud provider offers dynamically managed resources for your application and only charges you when your application is executed in response to a certain event. In other words, a serverless function is a backend computing method that is an on-demand and a pay-as-you-use service that is only offered on public clouds. We will introduce a few options for deploying serverless functions in the public clouds, as follows:

  • AWS Lambda: This is considered to be one of the first service offerings from any of the public cloud providers. AWS Lambda functions can be written in Python, Node.js, Java, PowerShell, Ruby, Java, C#, and Go. AWS Lambda functions can be executed in response to events, such as file...