Basics of Concurrency - Grokking Concurrency by Kirill Bobrov

In this episode of Book Overflow, Carter and Nathan discuss the first half of Grokking Concurrency by Kirill Bobrov! Join them as they discuss the basic building blocks of concurrency, how concurrency has evolved over time, and how building concurrent applications can increase performance!

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Grokking Concurrency by Kirill Bobrov

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Web Scalability for Startup Engineers by Artur Ejsmonthttps://amzn.to/3F1VWwF (paid link)----------------

00:00 Intro

02:07 About the Book and Author

03:35 Initial Thoughts on the Book

09:12 What is Concurrency vs Parallelism

12:35 CPUs and Moore's Law

22:19 IO Performance, Embarrassingly Parallel and Conway's Law

28:25 Building Blocks of Concurrency: Processes and Threads

33:05 Memory Sharing vs Communicating

39:13 Multitasking and Context Switching

45:24 Task Decomposition and Data Pipelines

52:35 Final Thoughts

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