Build Your Own Async

Why HN readers recommended it

HN people recommend it as the best way to understand what async machinery actually does under the covers.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

David Beazley

Topic

python async internals

Format

tutorial

Level

advanced

HN recommenders in dataset

4

HN mentions in dataset

4

Recommendation years in dataset

2020–2023

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• Yes, something like that. Like here's David's "Build Your Own Async" [1], which I prefer over Philip's (still extremely good) "What the heck is the event loop anyway?" [2]. It's one thing to tell how something works, but to successfully show what the hell its …

• I've found this [1] screencast on the low-level principles of async in Python an amazing resource to understand async at a deep level. [1] [VIDEO]

• I highly recommend Victor Skvortsov's exhaustive, 12-part series, "Python Behind the Scenes," a deep dive into the implementation details of just about every Python language feature one could possibly take for granted. There isn't a single one I haven't learned something from, but some of …