(Ebook) Grokking Concurrency by Kirill Bobrov ISBN 9781633439771, 1633439771

(Ebook) Grokking Concurrency by Kirill Bobrov ISBN 9781633439771, 1633439771

This easy-to-read, hands-on guide demystifies concurrency concepts like threading, asynchronous programming, and parallel processing in any language. Perplexed by concurrency? Don’t be. This engaging, fully-illustrated beginner’s guide gets you writing the kind of high-performance code your apps deserve. Inside, you’ll find thorough explanations of concurrency’s core concepts—all explained with interesting illustrations, insightful examples, and detailed techniques you can apply to your own projects. In Grokking Concurrency you will:    Get up to speed with the core concepts of concurrency, asynchrony, and parallel programming    Learn the strengths and weaknesses of different hardware architectures    Improve the sequential performance characteristics of your software    Solve common problems for concurrent programming    Compose patterns into a series of practices for writing scalable systems    Write and implement concurrency systems that scale to any size Discover effective concurrency practices that will help you leverage multiple cores, excel with high loads, handle terabytes of data, and continue working after hardware and software failures. The core concepts in this guide will remain eternally relevant, whether you’re building web apps, IoT systems, or handling big data. About the readerExamples in Python. No prior experience with concurrency or high-performance computing required. About the authorKirill Bobrov is a software engineer with a passion for data engineering.