Distributed Computing

This is the final chapter. Because we have covered so much in the book, this chapter will not cover many new concepts, but will teach you how to arrange these concepts for distributed computing. Our system in this chapter will post compute tasks onto a queue to be processed by workers that can be on other computers if needed. As this is the last chapter, we will skim over most of the concepts as they will have already been covered previously in the book. It must also be noted that distributed computing requires a lot of moving parts. When writing this book, I have tried to keep the pace interesting with intermittent rewards where you get to see your code run. However, in this chapter, all these different moving parts need to talk to each other for you to see something new. Therefore, you will have to stick with this chapter right through to the end before seeing it run. This chapter is essentially the final boss of the book and covers the following:

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