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Software Architecture with Python

You're reading from Software Architecture with Python Design and architect highly scalable, robust, clean, and high performance applications in Python

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781786468529

Length 556 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Concepts

Design

Author (1):

Anand Balachandran Pillai

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Table of Contents (12) Chapters

Preface

1. Principles of Software Architecture FREE CHAPTER

2. Writing Modifiable and Readable Code

3. Testability – Writing Testable Code

4. Good Performance is Rewarding!

5. Writing Applications that Scale

6. Security – Writing Secure Code

7. Design Patterns in Python

8. Python – Architectural Patterns

9. Deploying Python Applications

10. Techniques for Debugging

Index

Chapter 4. Good Performance is Rewarding!

Performance is one of the cornerstones of modern-day software applications. Every day we interact with high-performing computing systems in many different ways, as part of our work and our leisure.

When you book an airline ticket from one of the travel sites on the web, you are interacting with a high-performance system that carries out hundreds of such transactions at any given time. When you transfer money to someone or pay your credit card bill online via an internet banking transaction, you are interacting with a high performance and high throughput transactional system. Similarly, when you play online games on your mobile phone and interact with other players, again there is a network of servers built for high concurrency and low latency that is receiving input from you and thousands of other players, performing computations at the backend and sending data to you—all with reasonable and quiet efficiency.

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Authors (1)

Balachandran Pillai

Balachandran Pillai

Anand Balachandran Pillai is an Engineering and Technology professional with over 18 years of experience in the software industry in Product Engineering, Software Design & Architecture and Research. He has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. He has worked at companies such as Yahoo!, McAfee, and Infosys in the roles of Lead Engineer and Architect in product development teams, to build new products. His interests lie in Software Performance Engineering, High Scalability Architectures, Security and Open source communities. He often works with startups in lead technical or consulting role. He is the founder of the Bangalore Python Users Group and a Fellow of the Python Software Foundation (PSF). Anand is currently working as Senior Architect of Yegii Inc.

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