pythonConcurrency-fromBeginnerToPro.md

Python Concurrency: From Beginner To Pro

Threading basics

• the Neuman architecture
• the role of the OS
• processes & threads
• running multiple processes on a single core
• time slicing / scheduling
• concurrency vs parallelism
• I/O vs CPU bound tasks
• threading.Thread
• the join method
• subclassing threading.Thread
• shared data
• thread lifecycle

Thread data & race conditions

• race condition
• atomic operations
• locking
• threading.Lock

Deadlocks

• deadlocks
• lock timeout

Producer-consumer model

• components of a producer-consumer model
• queue.Queue
• the join method