Futures aren't ersatz threads

Concurrent programming is an increasingly important topic in the context of building modern distributed systems. Most such systems have a large amount of inherent concurrency. For example: To accommodate for large corpus sizes, a search engine splits its index into many small pieces. In order to efficiently satisfy queries, it must issue requests to each of these shards concurrently.

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