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Kamon Ayeva is a web developer/DevOps engineer working with a variety of tools. He spends most of his time building projects using Python's powerful scripting capabilities, add-on libraries, and web frameworks such as Django or Flask. Kamon has been using Python in professional contexts for more than 12 years. He is also a Python instructor with a passion for teaching how to use Python features to quickly produce results.

Sakis Kasampalis is a software engineer living in the Netherlands. He is not dogmatic about particular programming languages and tools; his principle is that the right tool should be used for the right job. One of his favorite tools is Python because he finds it very productive.
Sakis was also the technical reviewer of Mastering Object-oriented Python and Learning
Python Design Patterns, published by Packt Publishing.

Gaurav Aroraa has an M.Phil in computer science. He is a Microsoft MVP, a lifetime member of Computer Society of India (CSI), an advisory member of IndiaMentor, certified as a Scrum trainer/coach, XEN for ITIL-F, and APMG for PRINCE-F and PRINCE-P. He is an open source developer, a contributor to TechNet Wiki, and the founder of Ovatic Systems Private Limited. In 20+ years of his career, he has mentored thousands of students and industry professionals. You can tweet Gaurav on his Twitter handle @g_arora.

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Python is an object-oriented scripting language that is used in a wide range of categories. In software engineering, a design pattern is a solution for solving software design problems. Although they have been around for a while, design patterns remain one of the hot topics in software engineering and are a good source of information for software developers to solve the problems they face on a regular basis.

This book takes you through a variety of design patterns and explains them with real-world examples. You will get to grips with low-level details and concepts that show you how to write Python code, without focusing on common solutions as enabled in Java and C++. You'll also hunt sections on corrections, best practices, system architecture, and its designing aspects.

This book will help you learn the core concepts of design patterns and the way they can be used to resolve software design problems. You'll focus on all the Gang of Four (GoF) design patterns, which are used to solve everyday problems and take your skills to the next level with reactive and functional patterns that help you build resilient, scalable, and robust applications. By the end of the book, you'll be able to efficiently address commonly-faced problems and develop applications, and also be comfortable working on scalable and maintainable projects of any size.