Python Concurrency with asyncio

Python Concurrency with asyncio is a great technical book that teaches how to speed up slow Python code with concurrent programming and the asyncio library. It covers using asyncio with the entire Python concurrency landscape, including multiprocessing and multithreading, and demystifies asyncio's unique single-threaded concurrency model. The book includes examples of building web APIs and making concurrency web requests, as well as creating a map-reduce job that can process gigabytes of data concurrently. It is designed for intermediate Python programmers with no previous experience of concurrency required.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 325 pages
Publication date: 08 March 2022
Publisher: Manning Publications

This is one of the best technical books I've ever read. The writing is so good, and it covers an incredible amount of knowledge. Hands down, this is the best reference material on using asyncio anywhere.

- Kent R. Spillner

Learn how to speed up slow Python code with concurrent programming and the cutting-edge asyncio library.

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: The time demands of running code synchronously quickly overload standard Python and slow your programs to a crawl. Python's Asynchronous I/O library asyncio was built to solve these performance problems by making it easy to divide and schedule computational tasks so they can be run independently. asyncio concurrently handles multiple operations without a drop in throughput or responsiveness, making your apps lightning fast and easier to scale.

About the book: Python Concurrency with asyncio teaches you to write concurrent Python code that will boost the speed of your apps and APIs. The book demystifies asyncio's unique single-threaded concurrency model, giving you a behind-the-scenes understanding of the library and its new async/await syntax. Hard-to-grok concurrency topics are broken down into simple flowcharts so you can easily see how your coroutines and tasks work together.

You'll also learn how to use asyncio with popular web frameworks like Flask and Django, as well as with databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL. By the end of this book, you'll have a solid understanding of asyncio and how to use it to build high-performance, scalable Python applications.

Weight: 612g
Dimension: 188 x 234 x 25 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781617298660