File I/O can be faster in Python when using concurrency. * Discover how to write files 3x faster with processes * Discover how to read files 3x faster with processes and threads * Discover how to unzip files 4x faster with processes and threads File I/O stands for File Input/Output, referring to the process of reading data from and writing data to files on a storage device like a hard drive. Studying how to bring concurrency to file I/O is critical for Python developers. Adding concurrency into your file I/O tasks, you can unlock the full potential of modern computer hardware, making your applications more efficient and capable of handling large workloads. The problem is, there is no silver bullet. Each program and each task is different and unique. We cannot know which approach to Python concurrency will give good or even the best performance. Therefore in addition to learning how to perform file I/O operations concurrently, Python developers must learn how to benchmark a suite of different approaches to implementing file I/O operations concurrently. Introducing: "Concurrent File I/O in Python". A new book designed to teach you how to bring concurrency to your file I/O tasks in Python, super fast! You will get rapid-paced tutorials showing you how to bring concurrency to the most common file I/O tasks. Including: * How to perform file I/O operation in the background. * How to concurrently read files from disk and write files to disk. * How to concurrently delete files from disk. * How to concurrently copy, move, and rename files on disk. * How to efficiently append files on disk. * How to concurrently zip files and unzip files on disk. Don't worry if you are new to file I/O or concurrency, you will also get primers on the background required to get the most out of this book, including: * The importance of concurrency for high-performance file I/O. * How to perform common file I/O operations in Python. * How to use Python concurrency APIs including threading, multiprocessing, and asyncio. * How to perform file I/O with coroutines in asyncio using the aiofiles library. * How to use programming patterns for concurrent file I/O. Each tutorial is carefully designed to teach one critical aspect of how to bring concurrency to file I/O tasks. Stop copy-pasting code from StackOverflow answers. Learn Python concurrency correctly, step-by-step.

Learn how to speed up slow Python code with concurrent programming and the cutting-edge asyncio library. Use coroutines and tasks alongside async/await syntax to run code concurrently Build web APIs and make concurrency web requests with aiohttp Run thousands of SQL queries concurrently Create a map-reduce job that can process gigabytes of data concurrently Use threading with asyncio to mix blocking code with asyncio code Python is flexible, versatile, and easy to learn. It can also be very slow compared to lower-level languages. Python Concurrency with asyncio teaches you how to boost Python's performance by applying a variety of concurrency techniques. You'll learn how the complex-but-powerful asyncio library can achieve concurrency with just a single thread and use asyncio's APIs to run multiple web requests and database queries simultaneously. The book covers using asyncio with the entire Python concurrency landscape, including multiprocessing and multithreading. About the technology It’s easy to overload standard Python and watch your programs slow to a crawl. Th e asyncio library was built to solve these problems by making it easy to divide and schedule tasks. It seamlessly handles multiple operations concurrently, leading to apps that are lightning fast and scalable. About the book Python Concurrency with asyncio introduces asynchronous, parallel, and concurrent programming through hands-on Python examples. Hard-to-grok concurrency topics are broken down into simple flowcharts that make it easy to see how your tasks are running. You’ll learn how to overcome the limitations of Python using asyncio to speed up slow web servers and microservices. You’ll even combine asyncio with traditional multiprocessing techniques for huge improvements to performance. What's inside Build web APIs and make concurrency web requests with aiohttp Run thousands of SQL queries concurrently Create a map-reduce job that can process gigabytes of data concurrently Use threading with asyncio to mix blocking code with asyncio code About the reader For intermediate Python programmers. No previous experience of concurrency required. About the author Matthew Fowler has over 15 years of software engineering experience in roles from architect to engineering director. Table of Contents 1 Getting to know asyncio 2 asyncio basics 3 A first asyncio application 4 Concurrent web requests 5 Non-blocking database drivers 6 Handling CPU-bound work 7 Handling blocking work with threads 8 Streams 9 Web applications 10 Microservices 11 Synchronization 12 Asynchronous queues 13 Managing subprocesses 14 Advanced asyncio

Threads are a fundamental part of the Java platform. As multicore processors become the norm, using concurrency effectively becomes essential for building high-performance applications. Java SE 5 and 6 are a huge step forward for the development of concurrent applications, with improvements to the Java Virtual Machine to support high-performance, highly scalable concurrent classes and a rich set of new concurrency building blocks. In Java Concurrency in Practice, the creators of these new facilities explain not only how they work and how to use them, but also the motivation and design patterns behind them. However, developing, testing, and debugging multithreaded programs can still be very difficult; it is all too easy to create concurrent programs that appear to work, but fail when it matters most: in production, under heavy load. Java Concurrency in Practice arms readers with both the theoretical underpinnings and concrete techniques for building reliable, scalable, maintainable concurrent applications. Rather than simply offering an inventory of concurrency APIs and mechanisms, it provides design rules, patterns, and mental models that make it easier to build concurrent programs that are both correct and performant. This book covers: Basic concepts of concurrency and thread safety Techniques for building and composing thread-safe classes Using the concurrency building blocks in java.util.concurrent Performance optimization dos and don'ts Testing concurrent programs Advanced topics such as atomic variables, nonblocking algorithms, and the Java Memory Model

Python for the Lab is the first book covering how to develop instrumentation software. It is ideal for researchers willing to automatize their setups and bring their experiments to the next level. The book is the product of countless workshops at different universities, and a carefully design pedagogical strategy. With an easy to follow and task-oriented design, the book uncovers all the best practices in the field. It also shows how to design code for long-term maintainability, opening the doors of fruitful collaboration among researchers from different labs.

Explore the necessary concepts of REST API development by building few real world services from scratch. Key Features Follow best practices and explore techniques such as clustering and caching to achieve a reactive, scalable web service Leverage the Gin Framework to quickly implement RESTful endpoints Learn to implement a client library for a RESTful web service using Go Book Description REST is an architectural style that tackles the challenges of building scalable web services and in today's connected world, APIs have taken a central role on the web. APIs provide the fabric through which systems interact, and REST has become synonymous with APIs. The depth, breadth, and ease of use of Go, makes it a breeze for developers to work with it to build robust Web APIs. This book takes you through the design of RESTful web services and leverages a framework like Gin to implement these services. The book starts with a brief introduction to REST API development and how it transformed the modern web. You will learn how to handle routing and authentication of web services along with working with middleware for internal service. The book explains how to use Go frameworks to build RESTful web services and work with MongoDB to create REST API. You will learn how to integrate Postgres SQL and JSON with a Go web service and build a client library in Go for consuming REST API. You will learn how to scale APIs using the microservice architecture and deploy the REST APIs using Nginx as a proxy server. Finally you will learn how to metricize a REST API using an API Gateway. By the end of the book you will be proficient in building RESTful APIs in Go. What you will learn Create HTTP handler and introspect the Gorilla Mux router OAuth 2 implementation with Go Build RESTFul API with Gin Framework Create REST API with MongoDB and Go Build a working client library and unit test for REST API Debug, test, and profile RESTful APIs with each of the frameworks Optimize and scale REST API using microservices Who this book is for This book is intended for those who want to learn to build RESTful web services with a framework like Gin. To make best use of the code samples included in the book, you should have a basic knowledge of Go programming.

Winner of the 2014 Jolt Award for "Best Book" “Whether you are an experienced programmer or are starting your career, Python in Practice is full of valuable advice and example to help you improve your craft by thinking about problems from different perspectives, introducing tools, and detailing techniques to create more effective solutions.” —Doug Hellmann, Senior Developer, DreamHost If you’re an experienced Python programmer, Python in Practice will help you improve the quality, reliability, speed, maintainability, and usability of all your Python programs. Mark Summerfield focuses on four key themes: design patterns for coding elegance, faster processing through concurrency and compiled Python (Cython), high-level networking, and graphics. He identifies well-proven design patterns that are useful in Python, illuminates them with expert-quality code, and explains why some object-oriented design patterns are irrelevant to Python. He also explodes several counterproductive myths about Python programming—showing, for example, how Python can take full advantage of multicore hardware. All examples, including three complete case studies, have been tested with Python 3.3 (and, where possible, Python 3.2 and 3.1) and crafted to maintain compatibility with future Python 3.x versions. All code has been tested on Linux, and most code has also been tested on OS X and Windows. All code may be downloaded at www.qtrac.eu/pipbook.html. Coverage includes Leveraging Python’s most effective creational, structural, and behavioral design patterns Supporting concurrency with Python’s multiprocessing, threading, and concurrent.futures modules Avoiding concurrency problems using thread-safe queues and futures rather than fragile locks Simplifying networking with high-level modules, including xmlrpclib and RPyC Accelerating Python code with Cython, C-based Python modules, profiling, and other techniques Creating modern-looking GUI applications with Tkinter Leveraging today’s powerful graphics hardware via the OpenGL API using pyglet and PyOpenGL

Practically and deeply understand concurrency in Python to write efficient programs About This Book Build highly efficient, robust, and concurrent applications Work through practical examples that will help you address the challenges of writing concurrent code Improve the overall speed of execution in multiprocessor and multicore systems and keep them highly available Who This Book Is For This book is for Python developers who would like to get started with concurrent programming. Readers are expected to have a working knowledge of the Python language, as this book will build on these fundamentals concepts. What You Will Learn Explore the concept of threading and multiprocessing in Python Understand concurrency with threads Manage exceptions in child threads Handle the hardest part in a concurrent system — shared resources Build concurrent systems with Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP) Maintain all concurrent systems and master them Apply reactive programming to build concurrent systems Use GPU to solve specific problems In Detail Python is a very high level, general purpose language that is utilized heavily in fields such as data science and research, as well as being one of the top choices for general purpose programming for programmers around the world. It features a wide number of powerful, high and low-level libraries and frameworks that complement its delightful syntax and enable Python programmers to create. This book introduces some of the most popular libraries and frameworks and goes in-depth into how you can leverage these libraries for your own high-concurrent, highly-performant Python programs. We'll cover the fundamental concepts of concurrency needed to be able to write your own concurrent and parallel software systems in Python. The book will guide you down the path to mastering Python concurrency, giving you all the necessary hardware and theoretical knowledge. We'll cover concepts such as debugging and exception handling as well as some of the most popular libraries and frameworks that allow you to create event-driven and reactive systems. By the end of the book, you'll have learned the techniques to write incredibly efficient concurrent systems that follow best practices. Style and approach This easy-to-follow guide teaches you new practices and techniques to optimize your code, and then moves toward more advanced ways to effectively write efficient Python code. Small and simple practical examples will help you test the concepts yourself, and you will be able to easily adapt them for any application.

This is a textbook about parallel programming of scientific application on large computers, using MPI and OpenMP.

How well do you know the ThreadPoolExecutor and ProcessPoolExecutor in Python? The concurrent.futures module provides the ability to launch parallel and concurrent tasks in Python using thread and process-based concurrency. Importantly, the ThreadPoolExecutor and ProcessPoolExecutor offer the same modern interface with asynchronous tasks, Future objects, and the ability to wait on groups of tasks. The concurrent.futures module with the ThreadPoolExecutor and ProcessPoolExecutor classes offers the best way to execute ad hoc tasks concurrently in Python, and few developers know about it, let alone how to use it well. * Do you know how to handle task results in the order tasks finish? * Do you know how to wait for the first task to fail? * Do you know how many workers are created by default? Discover 130+ interview questions and their answers on the concurrent.futures module. * Study the questions and answers and improve your skill. * Test yourself to see what you really know, and what you don't. * Select questions to interview developers on a new role. Prepare for an interview or test your ThreadPoolExecutor and ProcessPoolExecutor skills in Python today.

Here, one of the leading figures in the field provides a comprehensive survey of the subject, beginning with prepositional logic and concluding with concurrent programming. It is based on graduate courses taught at Cornell University and is designed for use as a graduate text. Professor Schneier emphasises the use of formal methods and assertional reasoning using notation and paradigms drawn from programming to drive the exposition, while exercises at the end of each chapter extend and illustrate the main themes covered. As a result, all those interested in studying concurrent computing will find this an invaluable approach to the subject.