1 Introducing concurrency
In this chapter:
- You learn why concurrency is an important topic worth studying
- You learn how to measure the performance of the systems
- You learn that there are different layers of concurrency
Look out the window, and take a moment to observe the world around you. Do you see things moving in a linear, sequential fashion? Or do you see a complex web of interacting, independently behaving pieces all moving at the same time?
Although people tend to think sequentially—like going through to-do lists and doing things one step at a time—the reality is that the world is much more complex than that. It is not sequential but ...
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