Course Outline

Day 1 — Robust Python Foundations & Tooling

Modern Python Features and Typing

  • Typing basics, generics, Protocols, and TypeGuard
  • Dataclasses, frozen dataclasses, and attrs overview
  • Pattern matching (PEP 634+) and idiomatic usage

Code Quality and Tooling

  • Code formatters and linters: black, isort, flake8, ruff
  • Static type checking with MyPy and pyright
  • Pre-commit hooks and developer workflows

Project Management and Packaging

  • Dependency management with Poetry and virtual environments
  • Package layout, entry points, and versioning best practices
  • Building and publishing packages to PyPI and private registries

Day 2 — Design Patterns & Architectural Practices

Design Patterns in Python

  • Creational patterns: Factory, Builder, Singleton (Pythonic variants)
  • Structural patterns: Adapter, Facade, Decorator, Proxy
  • Behavioral patterns: Strategy, Observer, Command

Architectural Principles

  • SOLID principles applied to Python codebases
  • Hexagonal/Clean Architecture and boundaries
  • Dependency injection patterns and configuration management

Modularity and Reuse

  • Designing library vs application code
  • APIs, stable interfaces, and semantic versioning
  • Handling configuration, secrets, and environment-specific settings

Day 3 — Concurrency, Async IO, and Performance

Concurrency and Parallelism

  • Threading fundamentals and the GIL implications
  • Multiprocessing and process pools for CPU-bound tasks
  • When to use concurrent.futures vs multiprocessing

Async Programming with asyncio

  • Async/await patterns, event loop, and cancellation
  • Designing async libraries and interoperability with sync code
  • IO-bound patterns, backpressure, and rate limiting

Profiling and Optimization

  • Profiling tools: cProfile, pyinstrument, perf, memory_profiler
  • Optimizing hot paths and using C-extensions/Numba where appropriate
  • Measuring latency, throughput, and resource utilization

Day 4 — Testing, CI/CD, Observability, and Deployment

Testing Strategies and Automation

  • Unit testing and fixtures with pytest; test organization
  • Property-based testing with Hypothesis and contract testing
  • Mocking, monkeypatching, and testing asynchronous code

CI/CD, Release, and Monitoring

  • Integrating tests and quality gates into GitHub Actions/GitLab CI
  • Building reproducible containers with Docker and multi-stage builds
  • Application observability: structured logging, Prometheus metrics, and tracing

Security, Hardening, and Best Practices

  • Dependency auditing, SBOM basics, and vulnerability scanning
  • Secure coding practices for input validation and secrets management
  • Runtime hardening: resource limits, user rights, and container security

Capstone Project & Review

  • Team lab: design and implement a small service using patterns from the course
  • Testing, type-checking, packaging, and CI pipeline for the project
  • Final review, code critique, and actionable improvement plan

Summary and Next Steps

Requirements

  • Strong intermediate-level Python programming experience
  • Familiarity with object-oriented programming and basic testing
  • Experience using the command line and Git

Audience

  • Senior Python developers
  • Software engineers responsible for Python code quality and architecture
  • Technical leads and MLOps/DevOps engineers who work with Python codebases
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