The Mutex Club: BlockingQueue Solves the Bounded Buffer Problem
TL;DR BlockingQueue in Java is the bounded buffer you didn’t know you needed: fixed-size, FIFO-ordered, thread-safe by default. put()…
The Mutex Club: Demystifying Barrier Synchronization
Key Insights # Barrier Basics Imagine a relay race where every runner must wait at a checkpoint before the next leg. That’s barrier…
The Mutex Club: Mastering Java Executors with Fixed & Cached Thread Pools
Key Insights ### Executors Factory Methods The Executors class is your one-stop shop for thread pool creation. Instead of wrestling with…
The Mutex Club: volatile Means Visibility, Not Atomicity ⚠️
Key Insights ### Memory Visibility vs Atomicity Volatile is a visibility enforcer, telling compilers to hit main memory for every read/write.…
The Mutex Club: Graceful Thread Interrupts Without Deadlocks
The Mutex Club: Graceful Thread Interrupts Without Deadlocks ## Key Insights # Mutex Exclusivity Think of a mutex as a barista’s espresso…
The Mutex Club: Mastering Multi-phase Task Coordination
Key Insights ### Orchestrating the Phases Multi-phase coordination is essentially a tightly choreographed dance of agents or threads moving…
The Mutex Club: Async Isn’t Parallelism—Your Secret Productivity Hack
Key Insights – Non-Blocking Execution: Async is like a clever waiter that juggles orders instead of standing idle. In JS (async/await)…
The Mutex Club: Lock-Free Atomic Counters with CAS 🚀
Forget refereeing thread arguments yourself — let CAS handle the quarreling. ## Key Insights # Atomic Variables and CAS in a Nutshell Wrap…
The Mutex Club: Thread Group + Mutex Logging Demystified
TL;DR Thread Groups help you herd related threads like logging robots, but they don’t enforce order. A mutex is your log file’s bouncer—one…
The Mutex Club: Lock Ordering for Deadlock-Free Bank Transfers
The Deadlock Dilemma Ever seen your payment processor come to a screeching halt? When two threads try to swap funds between accounts A and B…