1 Introduction
CONCURRENCY IS EVERYWHERE. No matter whether you’re doing server-side programming for the web or cloud computing, building a responsive graphical user interface, or creating a new interactive client application that uses parallelism to attain better performance, concurrency is ever present. Learning how to deal with concurrency when it surfaces and how to exploit it to deliver more capable and scalable software is necessary for a large category of software developers and is the main focus of this book.
Before jumping straight into the technical details of how to use concurrency when developing software, we’ll begin with a conceptual overview of concurrency, some of the reasons it can be important to particular kinds of software, ...
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