Serious Python
A practical guide to deployment, scalability, testing, and the real-world concerns tutorials skip
Visit Serious Python →Serious Python, by Julien Danjou, is aimed at developers who already know the language and want to close the gap between “code that runs on my machine” and “code running reliably in production.” Chapters cover packaging, deployment, performance profiling, and the operational realities of running Python services at scale.
It draws on the author’s experience building OpenStack, one of the largest Python codebases in production use, and reads more like field notes from real incidents than a typical language reference — useful for anyone about to own a Python service in production for the first time.