12 Asynchronous communication
In this chapter:
- You learn about asynchronous communication and when to use an asynchronous model
- You learn the difference between preemptive and cooperative multitasking
- You learn how to implement an asynchronous system using cooperative multitasking via coroutines and futures
- You learn to combine event-based concurrency and concurrency primitives to implement an asynchronous system that efficiently runs I/O and CPU tasks
People are impatient by nature and want systems to respond immediately. But this is not always necessary. In many programming scenarios, we can postpone processing or move it elsewhere so that it happens asynchronously. When we do this, we reduce the latency constraints on systems that have to ...
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