High Performance Python 2nd Ed (O'Reilly)
Wednesday, 20 May 2020

Subtitled "Practical Performant Programming for Humans", and updated for Python 3, this book by Micha Gorelick and Ian Ozsvald is a newly expanded edition showing how to locate performance bottlenecks and speed up code in high-data-volume programs. By exploring the fundamental theory behind design choices, High Performance Python aims to help developers gain a deeper understanding of Python’s implementation. The book contains concrete solutions to many issues, along with war stories from companies that use high-performance Python for social media analytics, and descriptions of machine learning being used in production.

 

Authors: Micha Gorelick and Ian Ozsvald
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Date: May 2020
Pages: 468
ISBN: 978-1492055020
Print: 1492055026
Kindle: B087YTVL8F
Audience: Python developers
Level: Intermediate
Category: Python

 

  • Get a better grasp of NumPy, Cython, and profilers
  • Learn how Python abstracts the underlying computer architecture
  • Use profiling to find bottlenecks in CPU time and memory usage
  • Write efficient programs by choosing appropriate data structures
  • Speed up matrix and vector computations
  • Use tools to compile Python down to machine code
  • Manage multiple I/O and computational operations concurrently
  • Convert multiprocessing code to run on local or remote clusters
  • Deploy code faster using tools like Docker

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