# Parallelism and concurrency in a distributed event loop

DevFeed: [Parallelism and concurrency in a distributed event loop](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/parallelism-and-concurrency-in-a-distributed-event-loop-35936.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://temporal.io/blog/parallelism-and-concurrency-in-a-distributed-event-loop>)

Author: Fitz

Published: 2023-08-15T07:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Temporal Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/temporal-blog.md>)

Topics: [Concurrency](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/concurrency.md>), [Parallelism](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/parallelism.md>), [distributed-systems](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/distributed-systems.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/systems.md>)

Tags: [concurrency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/concurrency.md>), [distributed](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/distributed.md>), [distributed-systems](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/distributed-systems.md>), [how-to](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/how-to.md>), [parallelism](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/parallelism.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/systems.md>)

## AI overview

This explanatory article distinguishes concurrency from parallelism and describes how Temporal provides reliable concurrency and parallelism through a durable, distributed event loop.

## Source excerpt

Explore the differences between concurrency and parallelism, and how Temporal offers reliable distributed systems with built-in concurrency and parallelism.