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Rob Pike – 'Concurrency Is Not Parallelism' [video] (2012)


Rob (@rob_pike) is a software pioneer. His influence is everywhere: Unix, Plan 9 OS, The Unix Programming Environment book, UTF-8, and most recently the Go programming language.

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