Concurrency
Concurrent software can be a rich source of difficult-to-reproduce, difficult-to-diagnose, and difficult-to-fix problems. Bugs in such software often exhibit nondeterminism, depend upon subtle and difficult to understand interactions, and suffer from mysterious failure modes.
Simplicity and Control
You can build a number of things into your concurrent software that will help during debugging. The two keys are simplicity and control.
Simplicity is a key element of any software design, but it’s particularly valuable when dealing with concurrency. Keep the interactions between independent threads straightforward, and constrain them to as small a number of areas of code as possible. You might be surprised how simple you can make the ...
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