The ability to execute code in parallel is crucial in a wide variety of scenarios. Concurrent programming is a key asset for web servers, producer/consumer models, batch number-crunching and pretty ...

Python's "multiprocessing" module feels like threads, but actually launches processes. Many people, when they start to work with Python, are excited to hear that the language supports threading. And, ...

Threads can provide concurrency, even if they're not truly parallel. In my last article, I took a short tour through the ways you can add concurrency to your programs. In this article, I focus on one ...