Communication is one of the most important parts of your concurrent systems. Without proper communication mechanisms implemented, any performance gains we manage to achieve through the use of concurrency and parallelism could all be for nothing. Communication represents one of the biggest challenges you will have to overcome when it comes to communication between both threads and processes, and it's essential to have a good understanding of all of the options that are available before you dive in.
In this chapter, we'll look at the numerous ways that you can implement your own communication mechanisms, and discuss when and where to use each of these mechanisms.
We'll cover the following topics within this chapter:
- The standard data structures in Python, and how we can interact with them in a thread-safe manner
- Thread-safe communication...
