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Seven Concurrency Models in Seven Weeks: When Threads Unravel (The Pragmatic Programmers)

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Your software needs to leverage multiple cores, take care of thousands of users and terabytes of data, and continue working in the face of both hardware and software failure. Concurrency and parallelism are the keys, and Seven Concurrency Models in Seven Weeks equips you for this new world. See how emerging technologies such as actors and functional programming address issues with traditional threads and locks development. Learn to exploit the parallelism in your computer’s GPU and leverage clusters of machines with MapReduce and Stream Processing. And do it all with the confidence that comes from the usage of tools that can help you write crystal clear, high-quality code.

This book will show you how to exploit different parallel architectures to beef up your code’s performance, scalability, and resilience. You’ll be able to learn about seven concurrency models: threads and locks, functional programming, separating identity and state, actors, sequential processes, data parallelism, and the lambda architecture.

Learn about the perils of traditional threads and locks programming and how to overcome them through careful design and by working with the standard library. See how actors enable software running on geographically distributed computers to collaborate, take care of failure, and create systems that stay up 24/7/365. Have in mind why shared mutable state is the enemy of robust concurrent code, and see how functional programming in conjunction with technologies such as Software Transactional Memory (STM) and automatic parallelism can help you tame it.

You’ll learn about the untapped potential within every GPU and how GPGPU software can unleash it. You’ll be able to see how to use MapReduce to harness massive clusters to solve up to now intractable problems, and how, in concert with Stream Processing, big data can also be tamed.

With an understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of each of the different models and hardware architectures, You’ll be able to be empowered to tackle any problem with confidence.

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The example code can also be compiled and executed on *nix, OS X, or Windows. Instructions on how to download the supporting build systems are given in each chapter.

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