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diff --git a/content/waza-talk.article b/content/waza-talk.article new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5bf1895 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/waza-talk.article @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +# Concurrency is not parallelism +16 Jan 2013 +Tags: concurrency, talk, video +Summary: Watch Rob Pike's talk, _Concurrency is not parallelism._ +OldURL: /concurrency-is-not-parallelism + +Andrew Gerrand + +## + +If there's one thing most people know about Go, +is that it is designed for concurrency. +No introduction to Go is complete without a demonstration of its goroutines and channels. + +But when people hear the word _concurrency_ they often think of _parallelism_, +a related but quite distinct concept. +In programming, concurrency is the _composition_ of independently executing processes, +while parallelism is the simultaneous _execution_ of (possibly related) computations. +Concurrency is about _dealing with_ lots of things at once. +Parallelism is about _doing_ lots of things at once. + +To clear up this conflation, Rob Pike gave a talk at [Heroku](http://heroku.com/)'s +[Waza](http://waza.heroku.com/) conference entitled _Concurrency is not parallelism_, +and a video recording of the talk was released a few months ago. + +.iframe //player.vimeo.com/video/49718712?badge=0 281 500 + +The slides are available at [talks.golang.org](https://talks.golang.org/2012/waza.slide) +(use the left and right arrow keys to navigate). + +To learn about Go's concurrency primitives, +watch [Go concurrency patterns](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6kdp27TYZs) +([slides](https://talks.golang.org/2012/concurrency.slide)). |