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Concurrency & performance easy

Thread-Safe Producer Consumer Queue in Python

A producer-consumer pattern using thread-safe queue.Queue with two threads, demonstrating safe communication and synchronized task completion.

queue threading producer-consumer
Python
import queue
import threading
import time
import random


def producer(q, item_count):
    for i in range(item_count):
        item = random.randint(1, 100)
        q.put(item)
        print(f"Producer added: {item}")
        time.sleep(0.1)


def consumer(q):
    while True:
        try:
            item = q.get(time…
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System design patterns easy

How to Implement a Simple Event Bus in Python

Create a publish-subscribe event bus using dataclasses and defaultdict to decouple event producers from consumers.

event-bus publish-subscribe design-patterns
Python
from collections import defaultdict
from dataclasses import dataclass, field
from typing import Callable, Dict, List, Set


@dataclass
class EventBus:
    _subscribers: Dict[str, List[Callable]] = field(
        default_factory=lambda: defaultdict(list)
    )

    def subscribe(self, event_type: str, handler: Callable…
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Big data & Spark easy

How to Create a Mock Kafka Producer in Python

Build a Kafka producer that generates mock streaming records with JSON serialization and error handling for local testing.

kafka streaming producer
Python
import json
import time
from kafka import KafkaProducer
from kafka.errors import KafkaError

def create_mock_producer(bootstrap_servers="localhost:9092", topic="input-topic"):
    """Create a Kafka producer that generates mock streaming data."""
    producer = KafkaProducer(
        bootstrap_servers=bootstrap_servers…
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