Using Dispatch Group & Semaphore to Group Async Tasks
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Grand Central Dispatch (GCD) is a framework provided by Apple that was released in 2009 with OS X Snow Leopard & iOS 4. It provides easy to use API for the developers to to run background tasks by creating queue in serial or concurrent style without managing threads by themselves.