Traditional sequential programming uses blocking as the primary mechanism ... However, blocking is incompatible with the event-driven paradigm, as the video illustrates with the blocking Sleep() Win32 ...

Event-driven architectures like this are a relatively common design pattern in distributed systems. Like other distributed development models, they have their own problems, especially at scale.

Today, there is a better way, asynchronous servers. A new breed of frameworks for third-generation languages is taming the once complex world of event-driven programming. A rising star in the Python ...