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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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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

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

Building optimal database models

The first step to achieve any efficient access to your database is to build an optimal model for your database. If a model is not optimal, the rest of the techniques to speed up access to the database will make very little difference.

But before we dive into how we can build an optimal model for the database, let's first see how we can actually build any model for our database using SQLAlchemy.

For this example, let's imagine we want to build a model to represent a user in our BugZot application. In our BugZot application, a user will be required to provide the following fields:

  • First name and last name
  • Username
  • Email address
  • Password

Additionally, our BugZot application also needs to maintain some more information about the user, such as their membership level in the system, the privileges the user is entitled to, whether the user...

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