Serious Python

11SCALING AND ARCHITECTURE

Sooner or later, your development process will have to consider resiliency and scalability. An application’s scalability, concurrency, and parallelism depend largely on its initial architecture and design. As we’ll see in this chapter, there are some paradigms—such as multithreading—that don’t apply correctly to Python, whereas other techniques, such as service-oriented architecture, work better.

Covering scalability in its entirety would take an entire book, and has in fact been covered by many books. This chapter covers the essential scaling fundamentals, even if you’re not planning to build applications with millions ...