Concurrency pattern explained

In software engineering, concurrency patterns are those types of design patterns that deal with the multi-threaded programming paradigm.

Examples of this class of patterns include:

• Active Object^{[1] [2]}
• Balking pattern
• Barrier
• Double-checked locking
• Guarded suspension
• Leaders/followers pattern
• Monitor Object
• Nuclear reaction
• Reactor pattern
• Read write lock pattern
• Scheduler pattern
• Thread pool pattern
• Thread-local storage

See also

• Design Patterns
• Behavioral pattern
• Creational pattern
• Structural pattern

External links

• ScaleConf Presentation about concurrency patterns
• GopherCon Rethinking Classical Concurrency Patterns slides
• GoWiki: Learn Concurrency

Recordings about concurrency patterns from Software Engineering Radio:

• Episode 12: Concurrency Pt. 1
• Episode 19: Concurrency Pt. 2
• Episode 29: Concurrency Pt. 3

Notes and References

1. [Douglas C. Schmidt]
2. Web site: Active Object . R. Greg Lavender, Douglas C. Scmidt . 2010-06-17 . 1995 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100615214451/http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/PDF/Act-Obj.pdf . 2010-06-15 . dead .