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• Ned made a great concurrency joke
• Concurrency is hard.
• We believe edx is single threaded, but has multiple processes. 
  • Mongo and django, have their own mechanisms for concurrency. 
• GIL! Global Interpreter Lock
  • Python code that runs on two threads, are still not run at the same time and on a single core
  • Ssssssssss

March 9, 2016

Chapter 17: Smells and Heuristics

• Removing commented out code - Yes or No?  YES!!
• G30: Functions should do one thing
• Creating a Coding Standard Convention Wiki
  • Find terminology used throughout the book that we want to use to identify.
  • Make sure we don't get too jargony - that it makes it hard for newcomers to come up to speed.
  • Make sure PR reviewers still continue to explain themselves rather than just throw out a term.
  • Hyperlinkable sections.
  • Create a confluence wiki - contributor guidelines.
• Action Items:
  
  • Order "Effective Python" Cliff Dyer (Deactivated)
  • Invite all of Eng to club Cliff Dyer (Deactivated)
  • Ping IT on creating Github team Christopher Lee (Deactivated)
  • Create wiki for coding convention Nimisha Asthagiri (Deactivated)