docs: document thread-safety of client (#75)

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+.. note::
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+   Because the Datastore client uses the :mod:`grpcio` library by default
+   and uses third-party :mod:`requests` library if the GRPC is disabled,
+   clients are safe to share instances across threads.  In multiprocessing
+   scenarios, the best practice is to create client instances *after*
+   :class:`multiprocessing.Pool` or :class:`multiprocessing.Process` invokes
+   :func:`os.fork`.
 
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