The ability to execute code in parallel is crucial in a wide variety of scenarios. Concurrent programming is a key asset for web servers, producer/consumer models, batch number-crunching and pretty ...

Threads can provide concurrency, even if they're not truly parallel. In my last article, I took a short tour through the ways you can add concurrency to your programs. In this article, I focus on one ...

Having a pool is awesome, unless you’re the one who has to clean it. Bugs, leaves, grass clippings, you name it—when summer hits, all that muck is going to end up in your pool. Sure, you could hire a ...