Actors, Messages and Low Lock Contention for Java – Go Parallel

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Using actors and messages, concurrency is easier to understand. However, most developers don’t want to learn a new programming language in order to use actors and messages. If you want to forget a bit about threads and locks, you can add nice actor support to an existing Java application using Jetlang.
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Designing Rich Internet Applications With Parallelism in Mind

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Are you still designing RIAs (Rich Internet Applications) using a serial programming approach? If that’s the case, then you are losing a big opportunity to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage over competitors.

Watching Multiple Threads in C#

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In order to solve problems that arise in concurrently running threads in applications, we need new debugging techniques suitable for the new parallelism environments that occur in Visual C#. Multicore programming and parallel programming require new debugging techniques.
Learn some tricks to prepare multithreaded code to simplify the debugging and troubleshooting processes.

Sample Chapter 8: Simplifying Parallelism Complexity

You can download the sample Chapter 8: Simplifying Parallelism Complexity from Packt’s website:
http://www.packtpub.com/beginners-guide-for-C-sharp-2008-and-2005-threaded-programming/book/

UML diagrams to understand concurrent threads

This is a concise practical guide that will help you learn C# threaded programming, with lot of examples and clear explanations. It is packed with screenshots to aid your understanding of the process. Besides, it includes UML concurrent diagrams to offer a clear view of what is happening when multiple concurrent threads talk to each other.

The book design: Packt Publishing’s quality

The book has an outstanding design and a great printing quality. It has lots of screenshots and diagrams to offer less theory and more results.

It follows the Beginner’s Guide approach…

• Clear step by step instructions for the most useful tasks
• Learn by doing – start working right away
• Leave out the boring bits
• Inspiring, realistic examples give you ideas for your own work
• Tasks and challenges to encourage experimentation

Besides, it is based in real-life experiences and it does not promote alpha or beta frameworks.
I explain the real advantages and trade-offs of each threading alternatives to exploit multicore and multiprocessor technologies.

The book design: Packt Publishing’s quality

The book has an outstanding design and a great printing quality. It has lots of screenshots and diagrams to offer less theory and more results.

It follows the Beginner’s Guide approach…

• Clear step by step instructions for the most useful tasks
• Learn by doing – start working right away
• Leave out the boring bits
• Inspiring, realistic examples give you ideas for your own work
• Tasks and challenges to encourage experimentation

Besides, it is based in real-life experiences and it does not promote alpha or beta frameworks.
I explain the real advantages and trade-offs of each threading alternatives to exploit multicore and multiprocessor technologies.