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Mastering Concurrency in Python

You're reading from   Mastering Concurrency in Python Create faster programs using concurrency, asynchronous, multithreading, and parallel programming

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789343052
Length 446 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Quan Nguyen Quan Nguyen
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Advanced Introduction to Concurrent and Parallel Programming FREE CHAPTER 2. Amdahl's Law 3. Working with Threads in Python 4. Using the with Statement in Threads 5. Concurrent Web Requests 6. Working with Processes in Python 7. Reduction Operators in Processes 8. Concurrent Image Processing 9. Introduction to Asynchronous Programming 10. Implementing Asynchronous Programming in Python 11. Building Communication Channels with asyncio 12. Deadlocks 13. Starvation 14. Race Conditions 15. The Global Interpreter Lock 16. Designing Lock-Based and Mutex-Free Concurrent Data Structures 17. Memory Models and Operations on Atomic Types 18. Building a Server from Scratch 19. Testing, Debugging, and Scheduling Concurrent Applications 20. Assessments 21. Other Books You May Enjoy

Summary

There are seven main layers of communication in a data transmission process, with varying degrees of computing level. The media layers contain fairly low-level operations that interact with the underlying process of the communication channel, while the host layers deals with high-level data communication and manipulation. Of the seven, the transport layer is often viewed as the conceptual transition between the media layers and the host layers, responsible for sending data along end-to-end connections between different systems. Asynchronous programming can provide functionalities that complement the process of efficiently facilitating communication channels.

Server-wise, the asyncio module combines the abstract of transports with the implementation of an asynchronous program. Specifically, via its BaseTransport and BaseProtocol classes, asyncio provides different ways...

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