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Zack Siri
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Concurrency vs Parallelism

In modern computing the only way to scale up to increase productivity and output of the system is to increase the core count on the CPU and GPU.

As a developer it's important to understand how this impacts the software that we write. It's also important to understand how things work for us as developer to be able to take advantage of the multi-core nature of the future of computing.

Whether we're handling large amount of web traffic, render demanding 3d movies, streaming video games live on social network, these tasks require multi core processors to get the work done.

In this episode we discuss the difference between concurrency and parallelism.

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