ICP4D Updates for Python development guide

Developing IBM Streams Applications with Python (Versions 1.6+)

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IBM Streams Python Support

1. Installing Python APIs
2. Developing for the IBM Streaming Analytics service
   • Developing for ICP4Data
3. Developing with an IBM Streams installation
4. Common Streams operations
   • 4.1 Connecting to known data sources
   • 4.x Aggregation
     • Creating a window using last() or batch()
     • Simple aggregation using Window.aggregate (use pandas)
       • Partitioned windows
     • Using Aggregate from streamsx.standard
   • 4.x Connecting to Watson Machine learning/IoT
   • **4.x New filter option for splitting streams in matching and non-matching streams
   • **4.x New split function for splitting streams
   • 4.x Data model - namedtuples vs streams schema etc
   • 4.x Using views
     • Using views in a notebook
   • 4.x Scoring a model in Python
   • 4.x Saving credentials in app configs - a best practice to make code reusable
5. API features: **Scalablity, fault tolerance**
   • UDP (parallel fns)
   • **5.1 API features: Fault tolerance (consistent regions)**
6. The Python REST API
   • connect to CP4D examples
7. Using SPL Operators in Python
8. Metrics/Logging
9. Improving performance
   • Reduce latency using low_latency
   • Using isolate
   • resource tags?