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Expert Python Programming – Fourth Edition - Fourth Edition

By : Michał Jaworski, Tarek Ziadé
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Expert Python Programming – Fourth Edition - Fourth Edition

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By: Michał Jaworski, Tarek Ziadé

Overview of this book

This new edition of Expert Python Programming provides you with a thorough understanding of the process of building and maintaining Python apps. Complete with best practices, useful tools, and standards implemented by professional Python developers, this fourth edition has been extensively updated. Throughout this book, you’ll get acquainted with the latest Python improvements, syntax elements, and interesting tools to boost your development efficiency. The initial few chapters will allow experienced programmers coming from different languages to transition to the Python ecosystem. You will explore common software design patterns and various programming methodologies, such as event-driven programming, concurrency, and metaprogramming. You will also go through complex code examples and try to solve meaningful problems by bridging Python with C and C++, writing extensions that benefit from the strengths of multiple languages. Finally, you will understand the complete lifetime of any application after it goes live, including packaging and testing automation. By the end of this book, you will have gained actionable Python programming insights that will help you effectively solve challenging problems.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
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Index

Observing Application Behavior and Performance

With every new version of our software, we feel that release thrill. Did we manage to finally fix all those pesky problems we've been working on lately? Will it work or will it break? Will users be satisfied, or will they complain about new bugs or performance issues?

We usually employ various quality assurance techniques and automated testing methodologies to increase our confidence in software quality and validity. But these techniques and methodologies just increase our expectation that things will run smoothly with each new release. But how can you make sure that an application is running smoothly for your users? Or conversely, how can you know if something is going wrong?

In this chapter we will discuss the topic of application observability. Observability is a property of a software system that allows you to explain and understand the application's state based on its outputs. If you know the state of the system...