Ruby Concurrency for Senior Engineering Interviews

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This course includes

121 Playgrounds

20 Quizzes

This course includes

121 Playgrounds

20 Quizzes

Course Overview

Concurrency in Ruby is one of the most complex and advanced topics brought up during senior engineering interviews. Knowledge of concurrency and multithreading can put interviewees at a considerable advantage. This course lays the foundations of advanced concurrency and multithreading and explains concepts such as Monitors and Deferred Callbacks in depth. It also builds simple and complete solutions to popular concurrency problems that can be asked about in interviews like the Reader-Writer Problem and the ...Show More

Course Content

The Basics

Introduction

Program vs Process vs Thread

Concurrency vs Parallelism

Cooperative Multitasking vs Preemptive Multitasking

Synchronous vs Asynchronous

I/O Bound vs CPU Bound

Throughput vs Latency

Critical Sections & Race Conditions

Deadlocks, Liveness & Reentrant Locks

Mutex vs Semaphore

Mutex vs Monitor

Hoare vs Mesa Monitors

API Overview

Sleeping and Terminating Threads

Exception Handling in Threads

Global Interpreter Lock

Brief Intro to Asynchronous Programming

Interview Practice Problems

Implementing Semaphore

Blocking Queue | Bounded Buffer | Consumer Producer

... continued

Rate Limiting Using Token Bucket Filter

Thread Safe Deferred Callback

ReadWrite Lock

Unisex Bathroom Problem

Implementing a Barrier

Uber Ride Problem

Dining Philosophers

Barber Shop

Asynchronous to Synchronous Problem

Multithreaded Merge Sort

Thread-safe Singleton

Bonus Questions

Ordered Printing

Printing Number Series (Zero, Even, Odd)

Printing FooBar n Times

Build a Molecule

Fizz Buzz Problem

Epilogue

1 Lesson

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