The document discusses concurrency and scaling applications using Gevent. It provides examples of applications that require concurrency like web servers and SSH servers. It then discusses using multiprocessing to handle concurrency by spawning worker processes. This limits scalability due to memory usage and scheduling overhead. Gevent provides a more scalable alternative using greenlets that allow handling blocking operations asynchronously in a single process. It monkey patches Python sockets to make blocking calls non-blocking. This allows scaling to more concurrent connections without the overhead of processes.