concurrency.md

Concurrency Information

General links

• What's the Diff: Programs, Processes, and Threads
• 15 years of concurrency
• Rob Pike "Concurrency is not Parallelism" (and more good discussion at Stack Overflow

Threads

• C++ 14 thread tutorial
• Cautions about using threads:
  • A review of the paper "Why threads are a bad idea (for most purposes)"
  • The problem with threads

RPC

• Using RPC for message passing in distributed systems
• VIDEO: A Brief History of Distributed Programming: RPC by Christopher Meiklejohn, Caitie McCaffrey
• VIDEO: RPC vs Simple Procedure call

Other interesting concurrency links

• VIDEO: Concurrency in Python by David Beazley from PyCon 2015