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Understanding GIL & How It Hinders Scaling Python Applications

Learn about CPython’s Global Interpreter Lock: An obstacle to using multi-core CPUs from Python efficiently

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Dr. Ashish Bamania
Aug 13, 2023
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Scaling applications is a necessity in today’s world.

An application’s userbase can expand exponentially and hence applications are developed with an aim to handle more and more requests per minute as this happens.

Before talking about scalability, we need to be familiar with a few computer science concepts.

Let’s talk about them!

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