Async Python Foundations: Applied Concepts

Learn the skills to take asynchronous Python from theory to practice.

Introduction

• Supercharging Python async
• What you should know
• Setting up locally or using Gitpod

1. Understanding Asynchronous Programs

• What makes programs slow and when async execution can help
• How async works (async/await)
• How async Python differs from other languages
• Async sleep and gather
• Challenge: Sleep_five
• Solution: Sleep_five

2. Async Web Clients with aiohttp

• Supercharging requests
• Async WebSocket client
• Challenge: Write the response to a JSON file
• Solution: Write the response to a JSON file

3. Storage and Caching with aioredis

• How Redis shines in modern applications
• Getting started with aioredis
• Challenge: Redis chat
• Solution: Redis chat

4. Modern Servers with ASGI

• What is ASGI?
• ASGI landscape
• Chat app using Quart
• Async Django and Django Channels at a glance
• Challenge: Store feed data in Redis
• Solution: Store feed data in Redis

Conclusion

• Next steps