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• What I'm doing is getting some photos from Foursquare and Instagram. An API(REST) call triggers Foursquare query to get 30 places. Then 30 queries are issued to Foursquare to get a photo for each place. I've implemented the second queries by threads to get 30 responses as fast as it can. My concern is that if there are several users who issue the API the response might be slow. The system is using Apache, Django(python), single machine(Rackspace 512MB). What is the best practice to implement a job which requires concurrent processing.

• Answer:

  Use thread pool to limit number of workers. Read more about them at: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3033952/python-thread-pool-similar-to-the-multiprocessing-pool