Gain insights into Python's scalability, concurrency, and distribution. Learn about CPU scaling, event loops, queue-based distribution, and building REST APIs to optimize and deploy high-performance applications.

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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 queue-based distribution, lock management, and group memberships, which are fundamental concepts for maintaining availability and consistency in distributed applications.

In the last half, you’ll learn how to build a REST API, how to deploy your app to a PaaS, and how to optimize your application's performance.

By the end of this course, you’ll be more productive with Python, you’ll be able to write faster applications that are distributed, and you’ll have a great new skill that is highly coveted.

The Hacker's Guide to Scaling Python

# Problem

Suppose you have a bunch of documents, and you want to count the frequency of all the words occurring in those documents. This is a heavy task so you want to use a queue-based system `celery` with the broker and backend of `redis`.

For simplicity, you can assume that we only have three documents whose text is stored in the list named  `texts` beforehand. Now, your task is to define a function `getWordCount(text)` that takes a text as an argument and returns the dictionary of words and their frequencies. You have to register that function with `celery` and deploy a `worker` to execute the tasks.

For your convenience, we have provided the skeleton code and also started the `redis` backend ourselves.

> To run the code (`celery` and `worker`) in the playground below, run `python celery-test.py` in the terminal. Then, open another terminal and enter command `cd examples/queue-based-distribution/` to move to the directory. Then, enter the command: `celery -A celery-test worker`.

Test your skills of queue-based distribution by solving the coding challenge presented below.

Coding Challenge: Queue-Based Distribution

Scaling

CPU Scaling

Event Loops

Functional Programming

Queue-Based Distribution

Designing for Failure

Create a Web Crawler

Project Walkthrough

Lock Management

Group Membership

REST Interfaces

Deploying on PaaS

Testing Distributed Systems

Caching

Performance

Conclusion

Coding Challenge: Queue-Based Distribution

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