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Concurrency
Learn Concurrency as a connected topic across chapters, concepts, simulations, and interview reasoning.
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Learn Concurrency as a connected topic across chapters, concepts, simulations, and interview reasoning.
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Databases
Distributed Systems
System Design
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Article 1Async Python: asyncio, Coroutines, and Event Loops Without the Confusion📖 The 500-Second Problem: What Cooperative Multitasking Actually Fixes
Suppose your monitoring pipeline checks the health endpoint of 1,000 internal microservices. Each HTTP call takes about 500 mill27 min
Article 2Compare-and-Swap and Optimistic Locking: How Every Database Implements ItTLDR: Compare-and-Swap (CAS) is the CPU-level atomic instruction that makes lock-free concurrency possible. Optimistic locking builds on it at the database layer: read freely, compute locally, write o34 min
Article 3Dirty Write Explained: When Uncommitted Data Gets OverwrittenTLDR: A dirty write occurs when Transaction B overwrites data that Transaction A has written but not yet committed. The result is not a rollback or an error — it is silently inconsistent committed dat28 min
Article 4Lost Update Explained: When Two Writes Become OneTLDR: A lost update occurs when two concurrent read-modify-write transactions both read the same committed value, both compute a new value from it, and both write back — with the second write silently38 min
Article 5Adapting to Virtual Threads for Spring DevelopersTLDR: Platform threads (one OS thread per request) max out at a few hundred concurrent I/O-bound requests. Virtual threads (JDK 21+) allow millions — with zero I/O-blocking cost. Spring Boot 3.2 enabl18 minArticle 6LLD for Movie Booking System: Designing BookMyShowTLDR
TLDR: A Movie Booking System (like BookMyShow) is an inventory management problem with an expiry: seats expire when the show starts. The core engineering challenge is preventing double-booking u25 minPage 1 of 2