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Concurrent Programming

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Jun 29, 2022

Concurrency in Ruby: Cooperative Multitasking vs Preemptive Multitasking

This lesson details the differences between the two prevailing models of multitasking.

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Jun 29, 2022

Concurrency in Ruby: Synchronous vs Asynchronous

This lesson discusses the differences between asynchronous and synchronous programming, which are often talked about in the context of concurrency.

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Jun 29, 2022

Concurrency in Ruby: I/O Bound vs CPU Bound

In this lesson, we delve into the characteristics of programs with different resource-use profiles and how that can affect program design choices.

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Jun 29, 2022

Concurrency in Ruby: Throughput vs Latency

This lesson discusses throughput and latency in the context of concurrent systems.

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Jun 29, 2022

Concurrency in Ruby: Program vs Process vs Thread

This lesson discusses the differences between a program, a process, and a thread. Also included is a pseudocode-example of a thread-unsafe program.

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Jun 29, 2022

Concurrency in Ruby: Introduction

This lesson introduces concurrency and provides motivational examples to further our understanding…

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Jun 29, 2022

Concurrency in Ruby: Deadlocks, Liveness & Reentrant Locks

We discuss important concurrency concepts such as deadlock, liveness, live-lock, starvation, and reentrant locks in depth. Also included are executable code examples for illustrating these concepts.

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Jun 29, 2022

Concurrency in Ruby: Semaphore vs Monitor

This lesson discusses the differences between a monitor and a semaphore.

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Jun 29, 2022

Concurrency in Ruby: Amdahl’s Law

Blindly adding threads to speed up program execution may not always be a good idea. In this lesson, let’s find out what Amdahl’s Law says about parallelizing a program.

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Jun 29, 2022

Concurrency in Ruby: Moore’s Law

Discusses impact of Moore’s law on concurrency.

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