11 Event-based concurrency
In this chapter:
- You learn how to overcome the difficulties of the inefficient busy-waiting approach from Chapter 10
- You learn more about synchronization in message-passing IPC
- You learn about event-based concurrency
- You learn the reactor design pattern
Concurrency is a critical aspect of modern software development, allowing applications to perform multiple tasks simultaneously and maximize hardware utilization. While traditional thread/process-based concurrency is a well-known technique, it is not always the best approach for every application. In fact, for high-load I/O-bound applications, event-based concurrency is often a more effective solution.
Event-based concurrency involves organizing an application around ...
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