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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

Advantages of going serverless


With an understanding of how serverless applications work, now it's time for us to take a look at the advantages provided by this development approach:

  • Reduced development efforts: By using the services provided by the third-party cloud providers, we can reduce the development efforts for some of the common functionalities that are found inside an application, such as user authentication, notification, and file storage. All of these functionalities can be implemented through the use of the APIs provided by the cloud providers.
  • Less operational complexity: The execution and scaling of a serverless application is managed by the cloud service provider, which takes away the operational complexities of managing our own infrastructure to handle the execution of the application.
  • High availability: The applications built in the serverless manner provide high availability due to the fact that the infrastructure is managed by the cloud provider, which can have the application...
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