Operating Systems

Concurrency

Mastering concurrency means recognizing when parallelism creates hidden risks, and calibrating judgment to avoid costly mistakes in complex systems.

Goal:

Learn how parallel tasks are coordinated.

3Lessons

6Micro-lessons

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Lesson 1

Explore how competing tasks interact and why contention is rarely obvious.

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Micro lesson 1

Invisible Bottlenecks

Micro lesson 2

Priority Inversion

Lesson 2

Diagnose subtle failures in coordination and recognize delayed consequences.

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Micro lesson 1

Silent Deadlocks

Micro lesson 2

Livelock Drift

Lesson 3

Judge when scaling parallelism causes nonlinear harm and how to restrain escalation.

Start2 Micro-lessons

Micro lesson 1

Scaling Blindness

Micro lesson 2

Degradation Cascade