Asynchronous vs Multithreading and Multiprocessing Programming (The Main Difference)

In this video, I explain the main difference between asynchronous execution, multithreading and multiprocessing programming. There are advantages and disadvantages of each approach.
* Synchronous 0:30
* Multithreading a process have many threads shared resources 3:20
* Async io single thread 6:00
* Multiprocessing 11:00
Threads are evil
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Loved this video, the last half of this video could definitely make a great series on ways to use multiprocessing!

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[@ahmeddaraz8494]

multithreading languages tend to solve the problem by introducing reactive programming, Java did this after the community introduced some technologies like RxJava. and it is very power to combine both in the language echo system. however hard to perceive from the first glance. Great video buddy, all my wishes to you.. keep up bro

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[@icbm7]

Great video, as usual. To summarize: if your app is "i/o bound" (e.g. reading data from a db, and sending it back) then use the asynchronous model (like NodeJS). If you are doing something "cpu bound" (e.g. video processing or cracking passwords) then use something supports subprocesses and channels (like golang).

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This was a good watch. I think I see single-threaded async behavior differently now. I am now also very interested in process interop now. Most of all, I have a weird urge to try working with multiple asynchronous single-threads at the same time.....

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I think you can mix asynchronous and multiprocessing. I did something like that with fastapi using asynchronous functions and a Procfile with different microservices running on different ports

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[@faadi4536]

Hey Bro. I've been following your videos to understand the basic concepts of Infrastructure and your explanation is amazing, and I have a couple of questions for you if you would like it to clarify for me. In synchronous communication, you mention that when a single process starts, it has a single thread that it uses to trigger the instructions and just wait there for the data but the same thread can be used to spin up multiple threads to execute other processes and get the results but at the backend, they use the same threaded. So it's like a highway tunnel for all other shortcuts and every thread is getting different results and passing back the result in the highway to the processes. Our main thread is not blocked as multiple results are coming back and we are executing the multiple processes over a single thread. I think it's not as evil as you think it is as it is also a form of asynchronous transmission. We are not letting our thread sit idle but rather triggering multiple processes over a single channel and waiting for the callback and the thread is busy working for other processes. Isn't this the same idea behind asynchronicity? if yes, then how we do differentiate between asynchronous and a multi-threaded process as both use the same single thread? Of-course the method is different for both but at the core, isn't both are using the same principles? I would really love your feedback over this and correct me if I am wrong about it as this is how I understood your multi-threading explanation.

[@RyanFriedman36]

He sort of explains that the motivation for async in a language like JavaScript is to provide similar functionality to multi-threading without forcing the coder to be responsible for ensuring the resources that the multi-threaded process share are used correctly. This makes developing responsive UIs much easier as developers don't have to think about multiple threads, just the single thread and managing async calls. I think there are some helpful illustrations in this video kzbin.info/www/bejne/pZ28lZVmecl6qq8&pp=gAQBiAQB If you read through the comments there's a great explanation on multiple threads trying to access the same memory that is allocated to the parent process. It essentially says that a process is allocated a set amount of memory (in simple terms basically think of it as an array). If multiple threads happen to try to write data to the same index in that 'array' of memory (because the programmer was not clever enough to avoid this) you now have unpredictable/unsafe behavior for the rest of the execution of the process because one thread is expecting one value and the other is expecting a different value. There are certainly other real-world use cases for multi-threaded applications, they seem to be related to much lower-level programming (lower meaning closer to the hardware)

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I agree, multithreading is hard to code but it's worth doing especially if you combine it with asynchronous execution you will have the most responsive, memory-efficient application I'll go with multiprocessing only when execute a rarely use case with heavy logic

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Good video, I've a question about processing. let's say I've a node js code that sends some processing intensive calculation to another language for example python, will it run on another thread?

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Fantastic explanation. I sense some nginx prior tinkering which got you into this stuff. If you take a deep dive on the read modes async io, direct-io your audience will get much more value. Bravo and keep them coming.

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Thank you for this video!

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Hey Hussein, great talk! and thank you for the detailed basics which actually I missed learning (I guess I was on leave on those classes :D) Is multiprocessing possible in NodeJS ? and how?

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cluster i guess

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Lahdili Zuhir thanks! I agree with you too. I am experimenting with different formats. And i want mix both drawing and talking head 🗣👍

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Does i/o controller need different thread if yes then asynchronous == mulithreading?

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[@RobertTheUser]

So... going with your recommendation of multiprocessing... how do you accomplish that in C#? do you have a video on that?

[@osamaa.h.altameemi5592]

As usual fantastic video Hussein but in multi-processing we have to go with IPCs and the like and we will lose the shared memory space (which exists in multi-threading) among the threads. That is one key need in problems that involve high real-time update-rate. I see what you are saying about the locks and all the headache that comes with them and you nailed it there.

[@hnasr]

Well said Thanks Osama, good points, one slight addition; you can have shared memory between different processes (postgres is an example) of course you have the same trouble of managing the shared memory

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@@hnasr what do you think of green-threads used in Go and all the collaborative scheduling that comes with them. I am planning on taking a deep dive there once we deliver the current project.

[@hnasr]

Not familiar with Go but heard really good things how Go was built for networking and threading in mind to make it really easy

[@osamaa.h.altameemi5592]

@@hnasr There is one fantastic talk i recall watching I guess in 2018, it is called the "way of Go" or the "why of Go", highly recommended.

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Great explanation sir. I like the idea of multiprocessing !!! though never used :p

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[@dexteraparicio6808]

In your explanation of asynchronous non-blocking flow while waiting for an I/O response, the single-threaded flow does not wait and continues to go on. If the one and only thread did not block and it continues to go on, how is the I/O response got detected? Does it spawn another thread to detect the I/O response? Or does is the one and only thread doing context switching back and forth?

[@hnasr]

A good example is nodejs, it is a single thread that does an event loop. The thread sends to IO request and moves on to do something else, then it comes back to check if it got a response (polling) the OS. It gets complicated depending on the type of async io the OS supports. Recent linux io_uring is a game changer. This video might clarify kzbin.info/www/bejne/nX7XlJuIpMl2aKs

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@Hussein Nasser I would love to know your opinion about Golang (goroutines) and Erlang ( process ), and about node I think that it is a master - workers model the master is the app thread and workers are those who do the job behind the scenes. Thank u for the video

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I love to watch your videos, they are very informative. You could start a facebook group or slack group and ask people to join it.

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best explanation!

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so can we make any code asynchronus or mulithreading or it depends on the language or i did not understand whatever u said?

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Best teacher.

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Any recommendation for good resources about the operating systems.

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i suspect that some implementations of async & await use multithreading. nice video

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I did it.... Syntactical sugar😂😂... I love your explanation man.... We are the new generation where we don't write multithreading or async code, we IMPORT libraries to do it for us😂✌️

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One of the best explanations i have ever seen on these concepts... I have a doubt sir, sorry this seems like a silly question but how does Node.js use multicores in CPU as it is single threaded? ...does it use only one core 😅?

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