Google has announced Cloud Tasks, a task queue service for Google Cloud Platform's App Engine, the web framework and fully managed cloud computing platform. Cloud Tasks enables asynchronous execution ...

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The ability to execute code in parallel is crucial in a wide variety of scenarios. Concurrent programming is a key asset for web servers, producer/consumer models, batch number-crunching and pretty ...