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🔀 Doing many things at once — safely, correctly, efficiently

Writing code that does multiple things at once — correctly — is one of the hardest problems in software engineering. This category covers threads, processes, async/await, event loops, locks, race conditions, deadlocks, and the concurrency models used in modern languages and runtimes. Getting concurrency wrong is subtle; these terms help you get it right.

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Lock-Free Programming

Lock-free algorithms guarantee system-wide progress without mutexes — using atomic CPU instructions (CAS) so at least one thread always makes forward progress even if others are delayed.

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