Python on the Backend

Name: Python on the Backend
Price: 69.99 USD
Rating: 4.4 (1126 reviews)

Learn python back end development, build a website or APIs in Python, designed for students with Mac or Windows

Bestseller

(1,126 ratings)

33,069 students

Created by Hussein Nasser

Last updated 2/2024

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What you'll learn

Build cool web applications and APIs for other clients to consume
Learn how to serve a basic website with Python as the back end
Turn your existing Python libraries into web APIs to be consumed by other developers with other languages
Install, use and deploy Jupyter Notebooks
Learn how to Implement Load Balancing for your Backend Python services
Learn Backend Database programming with Python and PostgresSQL: connect, query, write and commit transactions.

Requirements

Able to understand basic programming principles

Description

Do you know Python and want to take it to the next level? How about writing a website in Python, or an API so your fellow developers can consume in JSON over simple HTTP. With the boom of microservices and API, developers who are used to working with Python writing scripts can now take their knowledge to the backend. This course will teach you the basic of web servers, how to setup the Python Web server and write interesting cool applications on the backend. By the end of the course you will be read to take on the world and write your own services and APIs, read and write from databases, do sophisticated load balancing on your Python services, work with Jupyter notebooks and much much more!

Who this course is for:

Beginner Python developers interested in building HTTP web APIs in Python
Experienced Python developers who want to expose their Python libraries as a web service for other developers
Data scientists who want to do heavy computational workload on the backend using vanilla Python or Jupyter notebooks
Developers who want to use Python to build APIs that write to a backend database

Featured review

Bruno L.

18 courses

9 reviews

5 years ago

The course starts with a very simple example of a python web app and extends it step by step. In this way, some of the very basic concepts like http request and response, or URL paths and parameters became clearer to me. The list of requesthandlers of the tornado framework is slim and clear and the postman app is a very useful tool to test http messages. I am glad I know these tools, now. Last but not least it is fun to listen to you, Hussein. Thank you!

Hussein Nasser

Software Engineer, Author

4.7 Instructor Rating
28,330 Reviews
217,104 Students
11 Courses

Early in my career 20 years ago I built database applications without fully grasping their inner mechanics. Facing performance issues, racing conditions bug and even corruption often left me helpless.

I resolved to truly understand the workings of database systems, ensuring I knew every query from my app and its execution in the db and what I choose to make as a transaction and what I make into an atomic query.

From that day I have fascinated by pursuing deep understanding of what is happening behind the scenes in software. If you follow me here you would see deep dive posts about backend, databases and operating systems.

If you enjoy pursing the internals, I think you may like my courses.