Python Concurrency for Senior Engineering Interviews

INTERACTIVE COURSE

Python Concurrency for Senior Engineering Interviews

Beginner

104 Lessons

15h

Certificate of Completion

Python Concurrency for Senior Engineering Interviews

235 Playgrounds

31 Quizzes

41 Illustrations

Course Overview

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 P...Show More

Course Content

1

The Basics

Introduction Program vs Process vs Thread Concurrency vs Parallelism Cooperative vs Preemptive Multitasking Throughput vs Latency Synchronous vs Asynchronous I/O Bound vs CPU Bound

Thread Safety Critical Section & Race Conditions Deadlock, Liveness & Reentrant Locks Mutex vs Semaphore Mutex vs Monitor Mesa vs Hoare Monitors Semaphore vs Monitor Global Interpreter Lock ... continued Amdahl's Law Moore's Law

2

Threading Module

Creating Threads Subclassing Thread Daemon Thread Lock RLock Condition Variables ... continued ... continued ... continued Semaphores Events Timer Barrier With Quiz 1 Quiz 2

3

Multiprocessing

4

Concurrent Package

Pool Executors Futures Miscellaneous Functions

5

Async.io

6

Global Interpreter Lock

6 Lessons

7

Interview Practise Problems

14 Lessons

8

The End

1 Lesson

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