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Mastering Python Design Patterns

Mastering Python Design Patterns

By : Kamon Ayeva, Kasampalis, Sakis Kasampalis
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Mastering Python Design Patterns

Mastering Python Design Patterns

4.3 (8)
By: Kamon Ayeva, Kasampalis, Sakis Kasampalis

Overview of this book

As software systems become increasingly complex, maintaining code quality, scalability, and efficiency can be a daunting challenge. Mastering Python Design Patterns is an essential resource that equips you with the tools you need to overcome these hurdles and create robust, scalable applications. The book delves into design principles and patterns in Python, covering both classic and modern patterns, and apply them to solve daily challenges as a Python developer or architect. Co-authored by two Python experts with a combined experience of three decades, this new edition covers creational, structural, behavioral, and architectural patterns, including concurrency, asynchronous, and performance patterns. You'll find out how these patterns are relevant to various domains, such as event handling, concurrency, distributed systems, and testing. Whether you're working on user interfaces (UIs), web apps, APIs, data pipelines, or AI models, this book equips you with the knowledge to build robust and maintainable software. The book also presents Python anti-patterns, helping you avoid common pitfalls and ensuring your code remains clean and efficient. By the end of this book, you'll be able to confidently apply classic and modern Python design patterns to build robust, scalable applications.
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Part 1: Start with Principles
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Part 3: Beyond the Gang of Four

The Thread Pool pattern

First, it’s important to understand what a thread is. In computing, a thread is the smallest unit of processing that can be scheduled by an operating system.

Threads are like tracks of execution that can run on a computer at the same time, which enables many activities to be done simultaneously and thus improve performance. They are particularly important in applications that need multitasking, such as serving multiple web requests or carrying out multiple computations.

Now, onto the Thread Pool pattern itself. Imagine you have many tasks to complete but starting each task (which means in this case, creating a thread) can be expensive in terms of resources and time. It’s like hiring a new employee every time you have a job to do and then letting them go when the job is done. This process can be inefficient and costly. By maintaining a collection, or a pool, of worker threads that can be created for once and then reused upon several jobs,...

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