The Long Road To Asynchrony

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1. LONG ROAD ANDREW GODWIN // @andrewgodwin ASYNCHRONY TO THE

2. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin Hi, I’m Andrew Godwin • Django

   core developer • Worked on Migrations, Channels & Async • Once a Londoner, now from Denver, USA

3. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin

4. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin "Asynchronous Programming" What is it, really?

5. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin Concurrent Programming The more general term

6. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin Input Process Output Sequential execution

7. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin Input Process Output Process Concurrent execution

   Archive

8. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin Shared use of a single resource

   In this case, CPUs

9. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin "Communicating Sequential Processes", C. A. R

   Hoare

10. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin func main() { messages := make(chan

    string) go func() { messages <- "ping" }() msg := <-messages fmt.Println(msg) }

11. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin Multiple processes multiprocessing Threads threading Event

    loops asyncio / twisted

12. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin Multiple processes scale best It's also

    difficult and costs the most!

13. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin Threads are unpredictable Also, the GIL

    is our ever-present friend

14. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin Event loops are a good compromise

    They do require shared memory, though.

15. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin Asynchronous ≈ Event loops Most of

    the time!

16. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin # Ready when a timer finishes

    await asyncio.sleep(1) # Ready when network packets return await client.get("http://example.com") # Ready when the coroutine exits await my_function("hello", 64.2)

17. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin Network/timer updates An event loop's flow

    Select a ready task Run task Add new tasks to queue await

18. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin Coroutines Time →

19. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin How did we get here?

20. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin 1998 threading module, Stackless Python 2002

    Twisted 2006 Greenlets (later gevent, eventlet) 2008 multiprocessing module 2012 Tulip, PEP 3156 2014 asyncio module 2005 Coroutine-friendly generators (PEP 342)

21. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin 2017 Django Channels 1.0 2018 Django

    Channels 2.0 2019 DEP 9 (Async support) 2020 Async views land in Django

22. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin No solution is perfect Everyone chooses

    different tradeoffs

23. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin Asyncio is based on yield from

    Because it was prototyped in Python 2

24. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin Can't tell if a function returns

    a coroutine! There are standard hints, but no actual guaranteed way

25. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin async def calculate(x): result = await

    coroutine(x) return result # These both return a coroutine def calculate(x): result = coroutine(x) return result

26. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin Can't have one function service both

    How we got here makes sense, but it's still annoying sometimes.

27. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin # Calls get.__call__ instance = MyModel.objects.get(id=3)

    # Calls get.__call__ # and then awaits its result instance = await MyModel.objects.get(id=3)

28. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin You have to namespace async functions

    I really, really wish we didn't have to

29. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin instance = MyModel.objects.get(id=3) instance = await

    MyModel.objects.async.get(id=3)

30. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin Completely different libraries! Even sleep() is

    different.

31. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin time.sleep ➞ asyncio.sleep requests ➞ httpx

    psycopg2 ➞ aiopg WSGI ➞ ASGI Django ➞ Django?

32. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin Django & Async

33. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin Asyncio only benefits IO-bound code Code

    that thrashes the CPU doesn't benefit at all

34. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin We're adding async to some parts

    The bits where it makes sense!

35. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin But, you can't mix sync and

    async So we have to have two parallel request paths

36. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin WSGIHandler __call__ WSGI Server WSGIRequest BaseHandler

    get_response URLs Middleware View __call__ HTTP protocol Socket handling Transfer encodings Headers-to-META Upload file wrapping GET/POST parsing Exception catching Atomic view wrapper Django 3.0 Request Flow

37. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin WSGIHandler __call__ WSGI Server WSGIRequest BaseHandler

    get_response URLs Middleware Async View __call__ ASGIHandler __call__ ASGI Server ASGIRequest Sync View __call__ Asynchronous request path Proposed async request flow

38. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin WSGIHandler __call__ WSGI Server WSGIRequest URLs

    Middleware View __call__ ASGIHandler __call__ ASGI Server ASGIRequest Asynchronous request path BaseHandler get_response_async BaseHandler get_response URLs Middleware Async View __call__ Implemented async request flow

39. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin We have to work with what

    we have I'd rather let people ship code than argue about perfection.

40. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin Django's main job is safety It

    matters more than anything else

41. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin Deadlocks Livelocks Starvation Race conditions

42. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin Coroutines & the GIL actually help!

    You're saved from all the awful memory corruption bugs

43. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin async def transfer_money(p1, p2): await get_lock()

    # Code between awaits is atomic! subtract_money(p1) add_money(p2) await release_lock()

44. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin You can still screw up a

    lot Trust me, I have lived it while developing async

45. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin async def log_message(m): await client.post("log-server", m)

    result = calculate_result() log_message(m)

46. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin async def log_message(m): await client.post("log-server", m)

    result = calculate_result() await log_message(m)

47. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin Async usability has a long way

    to go But it is undoubtedly the future!

48. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin Python is the language of pragmatism

    If anyone can get it right, we can

49. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin What does the future hold? Hopefully,

    no GIL!

50. Andrew Godwin / @andrewgodwin Let's make async understandable Almost every

    project could benefit, if we made it worth their time.

51. Thanks. Andrew Godwin @andrewgodwin // aeracode.org