Architectural Patterns

Issues in the master-slave pattern

The master-slave pattern works based on the divide and conquer principle. In the working of this pattern, the coordination concept is separated from the actual work as all the slaves work in parallel. Hence, the slaves have not shared state and they work in isolation. Another issue in the master slave pattern is its latency. This could cause an issue in systems where the response time is very critical, for example, real-time systems. Moreover, this pattern can be applied to a specific problem only if it is decomposable.

One of the ways of implementing the master-slave pattern is through a single master thread, which creates multiple slave threads. Each of the slave threads performs a variant of the required ...