PyWaw Summit 2015 - Designing Large Scale Applications in Python
Python is often referred to as a scripting language. While Python is
an ideal platform for scripting, integration or plugin tasks, it does in
fact cover all the concepts needed for truly large-scale object
oriented application development. However, complex applications bring new challenges.
The talk draws on my experience with large-scale application design using Python
as central implementation language and provides a cookbook approach to
many of the problems you face when designing and organizing complex
application frameworks.
The approach has been used in many real-life projects, ranging from web
application servers in varying fields of application to complete finance
trading systems. Python has always proven to be a truly good choice with an outstanding time-to-market advantage
over other implementation languages such as Java or C++. It allows
small software development companies to successfully compete against
multi-million dollar ventures.
-- Marc-Andre Lemburg, Senior Software Architect
Talk Video
This talk was given at the first PyWaw Summit 2015 in Warsaw, Poland, by Marc-André Lemburg, CEO of eGenix.com.
Mr. Lemburg is available as Python coach and consultant,
if you need help in designing your Python applications, refactoring
existing ones, or managing such projects to successful completion.
Talk Agenda
- Introduction
- Designing Python Applications
- Large-scale applications
- Why write applications in Python ?
- Application Design
- Situation
- High-level view
- Think outside the box...
- The Design Concept
- Divide et Impera: Step by step
- Start with the type of application
- Choose a suitable application model
- How should requests be processed ?
- Identify the processing model
- Break down by functionality
- Find the right layer model
- Examples of layer models
- Example: Web Application
- Found the layer model: now what… ?
- Layers are still too complex
- Break up layers into components
- Component design
- Component examples
- Advantages of components
- Component implementation
- The Big Picture
- The special System Object
- Components: Summary
- Components too complex as well ?
- Add management objects
- Management object or component ?
- Divide et Impera: The Lowest Level
- Lowest level: Data and task objects
- Example: Internal Communication
- The Request Context Data Object
- There’s beauty in design !
- Thinking outside the box... a recap
- Conclusion
- Before you start ...
- Structuring your modules
- Finding the right package structure
- Data, classes and methods
- Make mistakes and learn from them
- Magic word: Refactoring
- Often forgotten: Documentation
- Quality Assurance: XP helps !
- Quality Assurance: More tips
Talk Slides
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