Software Engineering Radio: Concurrency Pt. 1

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Hosts: Alexander  Michael 

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This is the first part of a series of Concurrency episodes. In this part Alex and Michael motivate and introduce the topic. We explain fundamental terms, such as thread, process, or mutex and dicuss typical challenges, such as deadlocks and race conditions.

• Good explanations of terms at Wikipedia
• POSA 2 contains patterns for concurrent systems
• Concurrent Programming in Java: Design Principles and Patterns - the 3rd edition seems to be ready soon. We already found the 2nd edition really great