Distributed Computing with Python

Preface

Parallel and distributed computing is a fascinating subject that only a few years ago developers in only a very few large companies and national labs were privy to. Things have changed dramatically in the last decade or so, and now everybody can build small- and medium-scale distributed applications in a variety of programming languages including, of course, our favorite one: Python.

This book is a very practical guide for Python programmers who are starting to build their own distributed systems. It starts off by illustrating the bare minimum theoretical concepts needed to understand parallel and distributed computing in order to lay the basic foundations required for the rest of the (more practical) chapters.

It then looks at some first ...