Thread confinement works fine for the scenario mentioned previously, but say that we need a way to scale it for scenarios in which we need to modify the shared state from many different parts of the app, or if we want more flexibility on our atomic block. For more complicated scenarios, we can build upon the idea of thread confinement and improve our solution by using a concurrency primitive that we saw before: channels. By mixing both of them we can create an actor.
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Learning Concurrency in Kotlin
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Overview of this book
Kotlin is a modern and statically typed programming language with support for concurrency. Complete with detailed explanations of essential concepts, practical examples and self-assessment questions, Learning Concurrency in Kotlin addresses the unique challenges in design and implementation of concurrent code. This practical guide will help you to build distributed and scalable applications using Kotlin.
Beginning with an introduction to Kotlin's coroutines, you’ll learn how to write concurrent code and understand the fundamental concepts needed to write multithreaded software in Kotlin. You'll explore how to communicate between and synchronize your threads and coroutines to write collaborative asynchronous applications. You'll also learn how to handle errors and exceptions, as well as how to work with a multicore processor to run several programs in parallel. In addition to this, you’ll delve into how coroutines work with each other. Finally, you’ll be able to build an Android application such as an RSS reader by putting your knowledge into practice.
By the end of this book, you’ll have learned techniques and skills to write optimized code and multithread applications.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
Preface
Free Chapter
Hello, Concurrent World!
Coroutines in Action
Life Cycle and Error Handling
Suspending Functions and the Coroutine Context
Iterators, Sequences, and Producers
Channels - Share Memory by Communicating
Thread Confinement, Actors, and Mutexes
Testing and Debugging Concurrent Code
The Internals of Concurrency in Kotlin
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