INTERACTIVE COURSE

The Hacker's Guide to Scaling Python

Advanced

99 Lessons

8h 30min

Certificate of Completion

1 Project

155 Playgrounds

13 Quizzes

83 Illustrations

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

Scaling

Introduction to Scaling

Scaling Across CPUs Distributed Systems Service-Oriented Architecture Quiz on Scaling

CPU Scaling

Introduction to CPU Scaling

Using Threads Using Processes Using Futures Advanced Futures Usage Daemon Processes Mehdi Abaakouk on CPU Scaling Quiz on Scaling Across CPUs Coding Challenge: Scaling Across CPUs

Event Loops

Introduction to Event Loops Basic Pattern: Blocking Events Using Asyncio Server And Client Naoki Inada on asyncio Quiz: Event Loops Coding Challenge: Event Loops

Functional Programming

Introduction to Functional Programming Functional Programming Toolkit: Maps, Filters, and More Functional Programming Toolkit: "next", "first", and "itertools"Quiz: Functional Programming Coding Challenge: Functional Programming

Queue-Based Distribution

Introduction to Queue-Based Distribution RQ Celery Celery: Handling Failures Celery: Chaining Tasks Celery: Multiple Queues Celery: Monitoring Joshua Harlow on Task Distribution Quiz: Queue-Based Distribution Coding Challenge: Queue-Based Distribution

Designing for Failure

5 Lessons

Create a Web Crawler

Project

Project Walkthrough

1 Lesson

Lock Management

9 Lessons

Group Membership

9 Lessons

REST Interfaces

11 Lessons

Deploying on PaaS

7 Lessons

Testing Distributed Systems

5 Lessons

Caching

7 Lessons

Performance

8 Lessons

Conclusion

1 Lesson

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