Multithreaded JavaScript - Concurrency Beyond the Event Loop

"With this practical book, intermediate JavaScript developers will come to understand the strengths and weaknesses of web worker APIs provided in browsers and the worker threads module provided by Node.js. Authors Thomas Hunter II and Bryan English focus on two approaches to buildings multithreaded applications: one using message passing and the other using shared memory. You'll learn APIs for implementing each, including when you might want to use one approach or the other, and when you can combine them"--

About the author

Thomas Hunter II has contributed to dozens of enterprise Node.js services and has worked for a company dedicated to securing Node.js. He has spoken at several conferences on Node.js and JavaScript, is JSNSD/JSNAD certified, and is an organizer of NodeSchool SF. Thomas has published four books including Distributed Systems with Node.js by O'Reilly.
Bryan is an open source JavaScript and Rust programmer and enthusiast and has worked on large enterprise systems, instrumentation, and application security. Currently he's a Senior Open Source Software engineer at Datadog. He's used Node.js both professionally and in personal projects since not long after its inception. He is also a Node.js core collaborator and has contributed to Node.js in many ways through several of its various Working Groups.

Product details

• Authors: Bryan English, English Bryan, Thomas Hunter, Thomas Hunter Ii
• Publisher: O'Reilly
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2021
• EAN: 9781098104436
• ISBN: 978-1-09-810443-6
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 232 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 382 g
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Programming languages; COMPUTERS / Programming / General, Web programming, COMPUTERS / Internet / Web Programming, COMPUTERS / Internet / Web Services & APIs, COMPUTERS / Distributed Systems / Cloud Computing, COMPUTERS / Languages / JavaScript