In this Java threads primer, Cameron Laird hits some of the high (and low) points of threads as a concurrent programming technique.

I’ll start with an overview of thread gates based on the traffic-flow model, then explain how to set up your development environment for the example application, a multithreaded prime-number ...

Learn about the best practices for concurrency in Java to ensure your multi-threaded applications are efficient, synchronized, and error-free.

Material on files, signals, semaphores, threads and client-server communication also has been updated and enhanced. The book provides programming exercises for many fundamental concepts in process ...

What is MVCC? (multiversion concurrency control) Multiversion concurrency control (MVCC) is a database optimization technique. MVCC creates duplicate copies of records so that data can be safely read ...