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Hands-On Enterprise Application Development with Python

You're reading from   Hands-On Enterprise Application Development with Python Design data-intensive Application with Python 3

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789532364
Length 374 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Saurabh Badhwar Saurabh Badhwar
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Preface 1. Using Python for Enterprise 2. Design Patterns – Making a Choice FREE CHAPTER 3. Building for Large-Scale Database Operations 4. Dealing with Concurrency 5. Building for Large-Scale Request Handling 6. Example – Building BugZot 7. Building Optimized Frontends 8. Writing Testable Code 9. Profiling Applications for Performance 10. Securing Your Application 11. Taking the Microservices Approach 12. Testing and Tracing in Microservices 13. Going Serverless 14. Deploying to the Cloud 15. Enterprise Application Integration and its Patterns 16. Microservices and Enterprise Application Integration 17. Assessment 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

The need for optimizing frontends

The UI of the application is one of its most important user facing components. It decides how the user is going to perceive the application. A smooth and fluid frontend goes a long way in defining the user experience with the application.

This requirement for a smooth user experience brings in the need for optimizing the application frontend, in that it provides an easy to use interface, fast response times, and fluidity in the operations. If we go ahead and look toward the web 2.0 companies such as Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, and so on, they spend a huge amount of resources just on optimizing their frontends to shave off a few milliseconds of the rendering time. That is how important an optimized frontend is.

Components of an optimized frontend

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