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Python Web Development with Sanic

You're reading from   Python Web Development with Sanic An in-depth guide for Python web developers to improve the speed and scalability of web applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801814416
Length 504 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Stephen Sadowski Stephen Sadowski
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1:Getting Started with Sanic
2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Sanic and Async Frameworks FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Organizing a Project 4. Part 2:Hands-On Sanic
5. Chapter 3: Routing and Intaking HTTP Requests 6. Chapter 4: Ingesting HTTP Data 7. Chapter 5: Building Response Handlers 8. Chapter 6: Operating Outside the Response Handler 9. Chapter 7: Dealing with Security Concerns 10. Chapter 8: Running a Sanic Server 11. Part 3:Putting It All together
12. Chapter 9: Best Practices to Improve Your Web Applications 13. Chapter 10: Implementing Common Use Cases with Sanic 14. Chapter 11: A Complete Real-World Example 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Background task processing

There comes a time in the development of most applications where the developers or users start to notice the application is feeling a bit slow. Some operations seem to take a long time and it is harming the usability of the rest of the application. It could be computationally expensive, or it could be because of a network operation reaching out to another system.

Let's imagine that you are in this scenario. You have built a great application and an endpoint that allows users to generate a Portable Document Format (PDF) report with the click of a button, showing all kinds of fancy data and graphs. The problem is that to retrieve all the data and then crunch the numbers seems to take 20 seconds. That's an eternity for an HTTP request! After spending time squeezing as much performance out of the report generator as you can, you are finally at the conclusion that it runs as fast as it can. What can you do?

Push it to the background.

When...

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