Concurrency pattern explained

A concurrency pattern is a software design pattern that supports concurrent processing.

Examples

Examples include:

• Active object^{[1] [2]}
• Balking pattern
• Barrier
• Double-checked locking
• Guarded suspension
• Monitor object
• Nuclear reaction
• Reactor pattern
• Readers–writer lock
• Scheduler pattern
• Thread pool pattern
• Thread-local storage

See also

• Behavioral pattern
• Creational pattern
• Design Patterns
• Structural pattern

External links

• ScaleConf Presentation about concurrency patterns
• GopherCon Rethinking Classical Concurrency Patterns slides
• GoWiki: Learn Concurrency

Recordings about concurrency patterns from Software Engineering Radio:

• Episode 12: Concurrency Pt. 1
• Episode 19: Concurrency Pt. 2
• Episode 29: Concurrency Pt. 3

Notes and References

1. [Douglas C. Schmidt]
2. Web site: R. Greg Lavender, Douglas C. Schmidt . 1995 . Active Object . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100615214451/http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/PDF/Act-Obj.pdf . 2010-06-15 . 2010-06-17.