Talk - A. Jesse Jiryu Davis: Why Should Async Get All The Love Advanced Control Flow With Threads

asyncio introduced many of us to futures, chaining, fan-out and fan-in, cancellation tokens, and other advanced control flow concepts. But Python threads were doing this stuff before it was cool! Come see Python threading techniques inspired by asyncio, Go, and Node.

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Paxos walkthrough was interesting in and of itself, and a nice demonstration of threaded futures to handle that complex startup scenario.