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24 alternatives to Scaling Python

A book teaching how to build apps that scale to billions

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Scaling Python launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Your home for data science and AI. The world's leading publication for data science, data analytics, data engineering, machine learning, and artificial intelligence professionals.

    2019 · towardsdatascience.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! This is my pet project, written from scratch because there is so much to discover and learn in the process. The focus is on simplicity and incremental updates. Progress is slow because I do not have much spare time to work on this, but I would love to hear some feedback. Regards

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN! I wrote a book on programming called The Elements of Code. I put the entire book online here: https://elementsofcode.io/ When mentoring (usually new) programmers, I noticed there were a few common mistakes that seemed to account for about 80% of the complexity in their code. I couldn’t find a concise guide to fixing those mistakes, so I decided to write one. The title is an homage to The Elements of Style by Strunk and White, which is the classic guide for communicating well using prose. That guide is quite tactical in nature, and I wanted to parallel its focus in The…

    2021 · pragprog.com · its alternatives →

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    The guide for building large, iOS, and Android native apps - with the challenges and common solutions across the industry.

    2021 · mobileatscale.com · its alternatives →

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    Pythonbooks ranks the best Python books for beginners, intermediate programmers and 15 different specializations.

    2017 · pythonbooks.org · its alternatives →

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    Full Stack Python explains programming concepts in plain language and provides links to the best tutorials for those topics.

    2014 · fullstackpython.com · its alternatives →

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    300+ curated content items for every stage of your startup

    2019 · roadtoscale.com · its alternatives →

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    Rich is a Python library for rich text and beautiful formatting in the terminal. - Textualize/rich

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Taipy 3.0▲299

    Build powerful data and AI apps in pure Python

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Modern scheduling library for Python. Contribute to Miksus/rocketry development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Learn how to create end-to-end projects/programs using Python. This book will help you level up and deploy working projects and learn new Python skills along the way.

    2021 · feld.to · its alternatives →

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    Hi everyone! I just released the Practical Python Projects book! (https://practicalpython.yasoob.me) I am happy to announce the first version as a release candidate. I have poured a lot of love into writing this book and would love to hear what you guys think. (A limited 100% off and discount coupons at the end) This is not a pure beginner book. The book does assume some background Python knowledge. You need to know the basics like methods, functions, classes, and such. If I use something that is not typically covered in beginner Python books, I will explain it before I use it.…

    2021 · practicalpython.yasoob.me · its alternatives →

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    The missing guide for building large apps

    2021 · mobileatscale.com · its alternatives →

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    Write, run, debug, embed and share your Python code

    2022 · its alternatives →

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    Background: I've been working on a book to help developers learn and write idiomatic Python. It's taken far longer than I imagined, but today I made it available for purchase (http://www.jeffknupp.com/writing-idiomatic-python-ebook). The automated build and test system I'm using is ridiculous. It uses: virtualenv, tox, pytest, coverage, doctest, pandoc, make, xelatex, makeindex, and a ~200 line Python script to collect and format the output. The details of the build/test system I created are described in detail here:…

    2013 · jeffknupp.com · its alternatives →

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    Explains programming language concepts in plain language.

    2016 · fullstackpython.com · its alternatives →

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    Your second Python book - build fluency through 50 exercises

    2015 · lernerpython.com · its alternatives →

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    Learn the basics of programming

    2015 · learnpythonthehardway.org · its alternatives →

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    been working on this for nearly a year

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A tool for refurbishing and modernizing Python codebases - dosisod/refurb

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, Over the past 6 months I've been working on a technical book focused on helping aspiring data scientists to get hands-on experience with cloud computing environments using the Python ecosystem. The book is targeted at readers already familiar with libraries such as Pandas and scikit-learn that are looking to build out a portfolio of applied projects. To author the book, I used the Leanpub platform to provide drafts of the text as I completed each chapter. To typeset the book, I used the R bookdown package by Yihui Xie to translate my markdown into a PDF format. I also used Google docs…

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    How startups are building large empires with minimum invest…

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    2020 · timothycrosley.github.io · its alternatives →

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    All-pair set similarity search on millions of sets in Python and on a laptop - GitHub - ekzhu/SetSimilaritySearch: All-pair set similarity search on millions of sets in Python and on a laptop

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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