Asynchronous vs Multithreading and Multiprocessing Programming (The Main Difference)

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I was very confused about asynchronous vs. multithreading, and you clarified that a lot in the first 3 minutes. Thank you!

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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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Thank you Mustafa for the kind words dear ❤️

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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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Clear and concise explanation, proof that we don't need beautiful architecture drawings when concepts are clear.

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[@hnasr]

Thanks! Enjoy 😊

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[@rohitbaisane6712]

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

[@MTX1699]

Have this doubt, how would you solve a sudoku using any of the techniques in the least time. Most favourable would be to use multithreading in this case. How to implement it? It is kinda a complicated problem.

[@theevertaz1612]

Also, one of the reasons a lot of people moved to asynchronous programming is performance. Multi threading model, aka 1thread/request or thread pool model, induces a lot of context switching between threads, since everytime a thread blocks it’ll be removed and put back when the blocking operation completes. This operation has a hefty cost at scale, while with asynchronous programming you have a fixed set of threads (generally the number of threads your cpu supports) doing non blocking operations.

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[@Abdullah-zc1uy]

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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this is the first time I smiled the whole way through a technical video :)

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Your videos are super great! But I prefer the one with graphics and drawings, because I can understand and memorize better informations

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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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@@hnasr Even Khan Academy style drawings are good or even basic white board. I feel when things are explained with visuals and the key points are written down then it's easier to absorb the information

[@KeplerEmeritus]

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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[@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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This explanation was something else..... Thanks man!!!!!

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excellent approach & good humor to explain complex topics in a simpler way.

[@АртемБатьков-м6ю]

In a real-life scenario, imagine working as a receptionist in a coffee shop. When working synchronously, you handle one customer at a time, and the line of waiting customers remains inactive until the previous customer receives their order. Multithreading involves teamwork, where a friend assists in taking orders by opening a second counter. However, the challenge arises as you may end up interrupting each other's work. If done effectively, productivity doubles, but without coordination, the service quality may suffer. On the other hand, asynchronous work involves taking orders continuously and serving customers as orders are ready. This method ensures smooth service flow as you can efficiently notify customers when their orders are ready while continuously serving the next customer in line.

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Amazing video, finally i learned this topic.

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Can you please the same thing with diagrams or animation ?

[@maedehshahabi4744]

Thank you very much Hussein, that was a clear explanation.

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Thanks Nasser. Just getting my feet wet with programming, python, turbo_flask, and threading. I appreciate your explanation.

[@orion.5611]

so a process is memory allocated to the program during execution

[@neuro5261]

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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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😂✌️

[@ganeshniranjan895]

which one of the above is better and faster in terms of for performing operations on pandas dataframe & insert those into multiple tables of a database, can anyone please guide me on this

[@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

[@osamaa.h.altameemi5592]

@@hnasr you got it right Mr. I usually go with Redis for more or less and have all my global "shared" variables there. If you are aware of faster alternatives, I am all in. Thx again.

[@osamaa.h.altameemi5592]

@@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

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@@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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Excellant explanation, very engaging and concise!

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

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What is difference Sync communication vs aync process

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As the old joke goes: A programmer has a problem. He decides to use threads. has now problem. He two

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[@tljstewart]

Loved this video, the last half of this video could definitely make a great series on ways to use multiprocessing!

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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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[@alainperez3778]

I have to disagree about staying away from multithreading. They have their own use context, with their pros & cons of course. And so it is that they came up with worker threads in nodejs. But I liked your explanation. Really funny the js event loop part. Regards!!!!

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[@dayvidkelly7683]

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?

[@RITWIKTIWARI24]

Hi Hussein, the example you gave of brute force using multiprocessing. Is it applicable for multi-threading too? I mean if thread 1 accesses from A-E from the rainbow table, thread 2 accesses from F-J and so on... This is possible I guess... and will it be still thread safe?

[@hnasr]

It is applicable in multithreading yes

[@RITWIKTIWARI24]

@@hnasr okay thanks!

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Every multiprocessing code can be changed to multithreading but you might not get the same benefits. So for this use case of brute force, which is CPU heavy operation, let's say you spin up 10 threads within a single process which is running on octa core computer. In that scenario, your application is using only 1/8 of your computing power and then dividing it into 10 threads amd in reality your cpu is underutilized. What you could do is spin up 8 processes and then have each process spin up few threads and in this way you get the best out of your cpu

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Regarding the multiprocessing use case for password cracking, if that's done on a particular machine, that's pretty much another variant of bitcoin mining ASIC but with different hashing algorithm. And the machine is optimised for this parallel workload.

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Multiprocessing kind of like distributed processing yarn and zookeeper kind of application?

[@hnasr]

Correct. Zookeeper helps find a master node to distribute the work.

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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)

[@adityanagesh4922]

Great content! However, not sure if we could say event loop > multi threading. Is it possible to have the performance advantage of multi threading (parallel processing) in event loop based approach? Golang is known for its multi threading.

[@RationalDissonances]

I think with Nodejs clustering you could achieve this. run an event loop on each thread of the CPU as a child node

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Do you know any Udemy Courses(or any Coursera, EDx) which we can take to get better on this?

[@bhavyaagrawal4050]

Very good explanation.. Don't know why so less thumbs-up

[@samyomar3313]

How can single threaded apps handle high load traffic?

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smooth explanation .. 5 star

[@AdetunjiSundayAwobajo]

Java handles multithreading perfectly well, synchronized keywords ensure no 2 thread has access to a method executing a code whilst still in the execution state until the current thread releases the lock. It also avoids deadlocks due to its synchronized nature. I don't know how to implement this in NodeJS.

[@satyajitkamble1646]

Hi Hussein, can you make a video on delete/put API endpoint design? For ex: If I am designing an API endpoint to add a user review...what endpoint should I hit? Would it be better for a put request to "/reviews/:reviewid" or would it be better to do a put request to "/users/:userid/reviews/:reviewid...what would be the pros and cons of both these design decisions?

[@hnasr]

Hey Satuajit good question! Since you are building a REST api you post to a resource. i would imagine GET /users/1/reviews will give you reviews for user 1. If you PUT /users/1/reviews that will create a new review entry for user 1. This way the same URL is shared for Read and write There is no best practice as far as I know except ease of documentation ..

[@SivaKumar89]

Your asking about the difference between having a resource as a collection and having it as a sub-collection in another resource.it depends on your domain and access pattern. Consider if you want to fetch all reviews when you fetch the user as well. Do you want reviews to exist in their own right? If so, then you'd be better off adding them as a separate collection.

[@hnasr]

Excellent point Siva! I didn’t pay attention to the group. For sure it matter and could yield significant performance picking one over the other...

[@mzgz4216]

Are you related to Jeff Goldblum ? Cause i see a tech version of him :D Awesome explanation by the way

[@evans8245]

Have you checked out multi-threading with rust-lang ? What do you think about it ?

[@hnasr]

DELT no I haven’t, but I read that it’s abstracted in a simple way and developer friendly.

[@evans8245]

Not gonna lie tho, you made me learn something new with this video, gonna make an informed decision next when I'm building an api

[@hnasr]

Enjoy! Keep building cool software

[@rodrigolabrador2745]

Hahaha the asynchronous unordered list on the 15 first seconds, nice touch 😂

[@upendrad6081]

Use mixing of Multiprocessing and Async. It will be useful

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Nice explanation !!

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