Pointer: What Current & Future Engineering Leaders Read

- Tony Solomonik

Concurrency

tl;dr: “I remember when I first learned that you can write a server handling millions of clients running on just a single thread, my mind was simply blown away. I used Node.js while knowing it is single threaded, I used async / await in Python, and I used threads, but never asked myself "How is any of this possible?". This post is written to spread the genius of concurrency and hopefully getting you excited about it too.

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1,000,000 Concurrent Connections

- Joseph Mate

Concurrency

tl;dr: "I hear the misconception that a server can only accept 65K connections or a server consumes a port for each accepted connection all the time." Joseph wrote this article to dispel this myth from 3 angles.

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15 Years of Concurrency

- Joe Duffy