Seven Concurrency Models in Seven Weeks

Preface

In 1989 I started a PhD in languages for parallel and distributed computing—I was convinced that concurrent programming was about to turn mainstream. A belated two decades later, I’ve finally been proven correct—the world is buzzing with talk of multiple cores and how to take advantage of them.

But there’s more to concurrency than achieving better performance by exploiting multiple cores. Used correctly, concurrency is the key that unlocks responsiveness, fault tolerance, efficiency, and simplicity.