Seven Concurrency Models in Seven Weeks

The Seven Models

The seven models covered in this book have been chosen to provide a broad view of the concurrency and parallelism landscape.

Threads and locks:

Threads-and-locks programming has many well-understood problems, but it’s the technology that underlies many of the other models we’ll be covering and it is still the default choice for much concurrent software.

Functional programming:

Functional programming is becoming increasingly prominent for many reasons, not the least of which is its excellent support for concurrency and parallelism. Because they eliminate mutable state, functional programs are intrinsically thread-safe and easily parallelized.

The Clojure Way—separating identity and state:

The Clojure language has popularized ...