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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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786468529
Length 556 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Anand Balachandran Pillai Anand Balachandran Pillai
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

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

Design patterns - Elements


A design pattern attempts to record those aspects of a recurring design in object-oriented systems that solve a problem or a class of problems.

When we inspect design patterns, we find that almost all of them have the following elements:

  • Name: A well-known handle or title, which is commonly used to describe the pattern. Having standard names for design patterns aids communication and increases our design vocabulary.

  • Context: This is the situation in which the problem arises. A context can be generic like develop a web application software, or specific like Implementing resource-change notification in a shared memory implementation of the publisher-subscriber system.

  • Problem: Describes the actual problem that the pattern is applied for. A problem can be described in terms of its forces, which are as follows:

    • Requirements: The requirements that the solution should fulfill, for example, the Publisher-subscriber pattern implementation must support HTTP.

    • Constraints...

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