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Python Concurrency for Senior Engineering Interviews

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104 Lessons

15h

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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

The Basics

18 Lessons

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

Threading Module

16 Lessons

Multiprocessing

20 Lessons

Locks & Reentrant Lock

Barrier, Semaphore, Condition Variable

Working with Managers

Concurrent Package

3 Lessons

Pool Executors

Futures

Miscellaneous Functions

Async.io

26 Lessons

Sending and Receiving

Generator Based Coroutines

... continued

Native Coroutines

... continued

Mixing Native & Generator Based Coroutines

Global Interpreter Lock

6 Lessons

Asynchronous with Executors

Interview Practise Problems

14 Lessons

Blocking Queue | Bounded Buffer | Consumer Producer

Non-Blocking Queue

Rate Limiting Using Token Bucket Filter

... continued

Thread Safe Deferred Callback

Implementing Semaphore

Read Write Lock

Unisex Bathroom Problem

Implementing a Barrier

Uber Ride Problem

Dining Philosophers

Barber Shop

Asynchronous to Synchronous Problem

Multithreaded Merge Sort

The End

1 Lessons

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