The basic programming model of languages, like Java, is thread based and while multithreaded applications aren’t terribly hard to write, there are challenges to writing them correctly. What’s ...

The subtitle tells it all "When Threads Unravel". Concurrency is not an easy topic. Just when you think you understand it there seems to be another way to make a mess of it just waiting to be ...

Multiprocess, multithreaded, and nonblocking/event-driven approaches affect how you develop and run software that has processes working at the same time. Concurrency ...

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I'm doing a uni project on concurrency, with specific focus on C. There are two classical high-level approaches to concurrency: The actor model (Erlang) and CSP (Go). Neither of these seem to be ...

Your software needs to leverage multiple cores, handle thousands of users and terabytes of data, and continue working in the face of both hardware and software failure. Concurrency and parallelism are ...