> GNU parallel is the way to go for dividing work up amongst CPU cores. Why reinvent the wheel? We’re not talking about writing scripts to run on your laptop.

> GNU parallel is the way to go for dividing work up amongst CPU cores. Why reinvent the wheel? We’re not talking about writing scripts to run on your laptop. We’re talking about code written for production applications. Deploying GNU parallel to production nodes / containers would be a major change to production systems that may not be feasible and even if it is would come with a high cost in terms of added complexity, maintenance, and production troubleshooting.