Performance Engineering: Profiling and Making Apps Fast by Default
About this episode
The episode discusses performance engineering for Python applications with Den Odell, focusing on his book about practical performance strategies.
How do you plan for the performance of your Python applications? What does a performance budget entail, and where should you spend your resources? This week on the show, we speak with Den Odell about his new book "Fast by Default: Practical Performance Engineering."
People in this episode
Host: Real Python
Guest: Den Odell
Topics covered
- performance engineering
- Python applications
- profiling
- performance budget
- resource allocation
Keywords
- performance
- Python
- profiling
- applications
- performance budget
- Den Odell
- Fast by Default
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: Fast by Default: Practical Performance Engineering
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