For deployment, Django’s engineers recommend one of the more robust Web servers — Apache, for example, though any Web server that supports either WSGI or FastCGI is suitable.

The example projects in the second half the book revolve around three common areas for Python: video games (PyGame), data visualizations (Matplotlib and Plotly), and web applications (Django).

Resource loading optimization is the first step in improving frontend performance, and the Python backend plays a key role as the "resource scheduler". For static resources (CSS, JS, images), ...