Chapter 7. Server Architecture
This chapter explores how network programming intersects with the general tools and techniques that Python developers use to write long-running daemons that can perform significant amounts of work by keeping a computer and its processors busy.
Instead of making you read through this entire chapter to learn the landscape of design options that I will explore, let me outline them quickly.
Most of the network programs in this book—and certainly all of the ones you have seen so far—use a single sequence of Python instructions to serve one network client at a time, operating in lockstep as requests come in and responses go out. This, as we will see, will usually leave the system CPU mostly idle.
There are two changes you ...
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