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Your software needs to leverage multiple cores, handle 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…


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I think it's beyond dispute that concurrency is the most challenging area of programming.

Even fairly simple programs can become dauntingly complex once you introduce concurrency into the picture. For this reason, concurrency is definitely one area where even accomplished programmers should keep honing their skills.

Another difficulty is that there are different sorts of concurrency (parallelism, multi-threading, asynchrony), and different environments (in terms of latency, durability, etc) which all require different solutions.

Paul Butcher's Seven Concurrency Models in Seven Weeks helps you to make sense of this complexity by presenting different programming tasks along with the solution that most…

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