The Mutex Club: Semaphore vs. Rate Limiter – Who Gets to Play Traffic Cop?
Semaphores, Rate Limiting, and Why Your API Isn’t a Free-For-All Ever tried hitting a public API during peak hours, only to watch your…
The Mutex Club: Mastering Thread-Safe Logging in Microservices
Key Insights # Thread-safe logging prevents a log soup When microservices spin up dozens of threads, logging without locks is like letting ten…
The Mutex Club: Async Chat Servers with Threads & Mutexes
Key Insights Parallel Handling and Shared State Building an async chat server means juggling multiple users (threads or async tasks) while…
The Mutex Club: Taming Batch Jobs with Java’s ExecutorService
Key Insights # Batch Submission Patterns Use submit() in a loop or the one-liner invokeAll() to fire off a pile of Callable or Runnable tasks.…
The Mutex Club: Kafka Consumers & Multithreading—Stop Sharing, Start Scaling
The Mutex Club: Kafka Consumers & Multithreading—Stop Sharing, Start Scaling Kafka consumers are single-threaded by design—think Chandler…
The Mutex Club: Why Game Loops Are Smarter Than Your Average Thread Party
Welcome to the Mutex Club (Jacket Optional, Thread Safety Mandatory)\n\nGame engine devs love their threads like coffee: strong and…
The Mutex Club: Mastering Parallel File I/O with Threads
Introduction\n\nMeet parallel file I/O: the dream of blazing-fast reads and writes across multiple CPU cores. Spawn a legion of threads in…
The Mutex Club: Mastering Android Multithreading
TL;DR: Don’t Freeze the Main Thread Android’s main (UI) thread is like the maître d’ of an exclusive restaurant—clogs here and the whole…
The Mutex Club: Thread Pools to the Rescue
Key Insights on Multithreading in Web Servers # The Hidden Engine: Why Multithreading? Imagine your CPU as a lone chef trying to cook five…
Threading Models in HFT: The Chess Grandmasters of Nano-Second Trading
Why Threading Runs the HFT Show Picture an F1 pit stop, but in your server room: that’s threading in high-frequency trading (HFT).…