The Hacker's Guide to Scaling Python

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99 Lessons

8h 30min

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This course includes

1 Project
155 Playgrounds
13 Quizzes

This course includes

1 Project
155 Playgrounds
13 Quizzes

Course Overview

Python, in all of its greatness, is often dismissed when needing to write performant and distributed applications. It’s considered to be slow and not suited for the task. In this course, you will find that with the right implementation of Python, you can write applications that scale horizontally, perform well, and are distributed. To kick things off, you’ll learn about CPU scaling, concurrency, and event loops, all of which are crucial for implementing a distributed system. After that, you’ll move on to ...Show More

Course Content

1.

Scaling

2.

CPU Scaling

3.

Event Loops

4.

Functional Programming

5.

Queue-Based Distribution

6.

Designing for Failure

5 Lessons

Create a Web Crawler

Project

7.

Project Walkthrough

1 Lesson

8.

Lock Management

9 Lessons

9.

Group Membership

9 Lessons

10.

REST Interfaces

11 Lessons

11.

Deploying on PaaS

7 Lessons

12.

Testing Distributed Systems

5 Lessons

13.

Caching

7 Lessons

14.

Performance

8 Lessons

15.

Conclusion

1 Lesson

Course Author

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