July 2017
Beginner to intermediate
340 pages
7h 43m
English
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Implementing microservices with Python
Python is an amazingly versatile language.
As you probably already know, it's used to build many different kinds of applications--from simple system scripts that perform tasks on a server to large object-oriented applications that run services for millions of users.
According to a study conducted by Philip Guo in 2014, published on the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) website, Python has surpassed Java in top U.S. universities, and is the most popular language to learn computer science.
This trend is also true in the software industry. Python sits now in the top five languages in the TIOBE index (http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/), and it's probably even bigger in the web development land, since ...