Chapter 8. Concurrent Application Architecture

By now, we've designed small bits of concurrent programs, primarily in a single piece keeping concurrency largely isolated. What we haven't done yet is tie everything together to build something a little more robust, complex, and more daunting to manage from an administrator's perspective.

Simple chat applications and web servers are fine and dandy. However, you will eventually need more complexity and require external software to meet all of the more advanced requirements.

In this case, we'll build something that's satisfied by a few dissonant services: a file manager with revision control that supplies web and shell access. Services such as Dropbox and Google Drive allow users to keep and share files ...

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