February 2019
Intermediate to advanced
672 pages
16h 50m
English
Considering the present day, where an explosive growth the internet and data sharing happens every second, concurrency is more important than ever. The current use of concurrent programming emphasizes correctness, performance, and robustness.
Some concurrent systems, such as operating systems or database management systems, are generally designed to operate indefinitely, including automatic recovery from failure, and not terminate unexpectedly. As mentioned previously, concurrent systems use shared resources, and thus they require some form of semaphore in their implementation, to control and coordinate access to those resources.
Concurrent programming is quite ubiquitous in the field of software development. Following are a few ...