Shalabh Aggarwal - Flask Framework Cookbook: Over 80 proven recipes and techniques for Python web development with Flask

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Shalabh Aggarwal has more than 10 years' experience in developing and managing enterprise systems, as well as web and mobile applications for small-to large-scale industries. He started his career working on Python, and although he now works on multiple technologies, he remains a Python developer at heart. He is passionate about open source technologies and writes highly readable and quality code.

He is also active in voluntary training for engineering students on non-conventional and open source topics. When not working with full-time assignments, he consults for start-ups on leveraging different technologies. When not writing code, he writes technical and non-technical literature, which is published across multiple blogs.

Arun Kumar Gupta is a professional programmer and currently works as a technical lead in a leading MNC company . He has been developing software since 2010. He has worked with Python using Flask/Django to build web applications, APIs, and microservices in e-commerce, healthcare, retail, and machine learning. He completed his MSc in computer applications in 2010. While not at work, he enjoys playing with his children and reading about new technologies

Harshad Kavathiya is a backend software developer with extensive industrial experience. He is currently working for Accion Labs as a senior software engineer. He holds an M.Tech. in computer science from the Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal. He is a strong believer in open source software, and endeavors to contribute where and when he can. His expertise lies in Python, data structures and algorithms, microservice architecture, and real-time and scalable application development.

Rahul Shelke is a co-founder of My Cute Office PVT. Ltd. He founded Octopi Labs, where everyone is involved in contributing a piece of software that can be used by others or in improving existing open source libraries. He has acted as a mentor to tech start-ups and is also involved in professional training in C, Python, AWS, DevOps, and automation.
He holds an M.Tech. in computer science. He has more than a decade of practical experience in software architecture design and development, cloud computing, business intelligence, data science, DevOps, web development, and system performance optimization. He has been actively involved in contributing to Python, Python-Flask, and Drupal.

I would like to thank the Packt Publishing team for giving me the opportunity to be a part of this project. A special thanks to the My Cute Office team, whose support helped me manage my work alongside this book review. I would also like to thank my family for supporting me during this process. Finally, I give thanks for the countless support from Python-Flask's open source community for providing me with such an easy and fast web development framework.

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In the five years since the first edition of this book was published, I have received numerous emails, letters, and feedback messages from readers appreciating or criticizing the book, and suggesting how it could be improved and updated. The technology itself has changed quite a bit in the meantime: Python 3 has taken the mainstream and Python 2 is on the path to being phased out. Flask released their first major version, version 1.0, in April 2018. Many libraries and packages became obsolete or unmaintained, while new libraries and packages evolved as substitutes or accessories. Alongside all this, a huge shift took place in application deployment and management architecture design, with scalability being the foremost concern.