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Python Architecture Patterns

By : Jaime Buelta
Book Image

Python Architecture Patterns

By: Jaime Buelta

Overview of this book

Developing large-scale systems that continuously grow in scale and complexity requires a thorough understanding of how software projects should be implemented. Software developers, architects, and technical management teams rely on high-level software design patterns such as microservices architecture, event-driven architecture, and the strategic patterns prescribed by domain-driven design (DDD) to make their work easier. This book covers these proven architecture design patterns with a forward-looking approach to help Python developers manage application complexity—and get the most value out of their test suites. Starting with the initial stages of design, you will learn about the main blocks and mental flow to use at the start of a project. The book covers various architectural patterns like microservices, web services, and event-driven structures and how to choose the one best suited to your project. Establishing a foundation of required concepts, you will progress into development, debugging, and testing to produce high-quality code that is ready for deployment. You will learn about ongoing operations on how to continue the task after the system is deployed to end users, as the software development lifecycle is never finished. By the end of this Python book, you will have developed "architectural thinking": a different way of approaching software design, including making changes to ongoing systems.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
2
Part I: Design
6
Part II: Architectural Patterns
12
Part III: Implementation
15
Part IV: Ongoing operations
21
Other Books You May Enjoy
22
Index

Python worker

The core of the system is the Python WSGI worker. This worker receives the HTTP requests from uWSGI after they're routed by the external web server, etc.

This is where the magic happens, and it is specific to the application. This is the element that will see faster iteration than the rest of the links of the chain.

Each framework will interact in a slightly different way with the requests, but in general, they will follow similar patterns. We will use Django as an example.

We won't discuss all aspects of Django or go into a deep dive of its features but will use a selection to look at some lessons that are useful for other frameworks.

The Django project is really well documented. Seriously, it has always been distinguished by its world-class documentation, since the project started. You can read it here: http://www.djangoproject.com.

Django MVT architecture

Django borrows heavily from the MVC structure but tweaks it a...