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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

The Singleton pattern

The Singleton pattern is one of the patterns that finds its place in the book by Gang of Four, and which can have various uses where all we want is a class to have a single instance throughout an application.

The Singleton pattern enforces that a class will have only one instance that will be used by any of the components/modules inside an application. This kind of enforcement can be useful when we want to control the access to a resource using only one object. These type of resources can be log files, databases, crash-handling mechanisms, and so on.

In most of the OOP-based languages, to implement the Singleton pattern, the first step is to make the class constructor private and then use a static method inside a class to return the same instance whenever some part of the code needs to use the functionality of the class. In Python, we do not have the functionality...

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