Stories from the Web Crawling trenches in inter-process communication

Leveraging Unix Sockets for Efficient Inter-Process Communication with aiohttp

Author: Mohan Ganesan

Date: Feb 22, 2024

IPC enables processes on the same machine to communicate locally. Unix domain sockets provide faster communication, lower latency, and improved security. Python aiohttp library supports UDS for inter-process communication.

Is socket a Python library?

Author: Mohan Ganesan

Date: Feb 20, 2024

The socket module in Python is a built-in interface for networking and inter-process communication. It is not a third-party library and can be imported freely without extra installation steps.

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