Concurrency in Python is one of the most complex and advanced topics brought up during senior engineering interviews. Knowledge of concurrency and multithreading can put interviewees at a considerable advantage. This course lays the foundations of advanced concurrency and multithreading and explains concepts such as Monitors, Event Loops and Deferred Callbacks in depth. It also builds simple and complete solutions to popular concurrency problems that can be asked about in interviews like the Reader-Writer Problem and the Dining Philosopher Problem. While prior knowledge of concurrency is not required to follow through with this course, familiarity with the very basic Python would be helpful.

Python Concurrency for Senior Engineering Interviews

This lesson lays the context for a hands-on exercise we'll undertake to study the effects of GIL on a web-service when designed and implemented using different concurrency paradigms.

The Basics

Threading Module

Multiprocessing

Concurrent Package

Async.io

Global Interpreter Lock

Interview Practise Problems

The End

Introduction