Both concurrency and distributed programming have the same roots in early computer science. In those early days, problems were often modelled from an asynchronous perspective.

One of the hardest tricks for any programmer to do is to master concurrent programming. Facebook's new tool, RacerD, goes a long way to helping developers spot concurrency errors.

Memory models offer the formal frameworks that define how operations on memory are executed in environments with concurrent processes. By establishing rules for the ordering and visibility of ...

In his latest book "Programming Concurrency on the JVM" author Venkat Subramaniam talks about the concurrency techniques using different JVM programming languages. He also discusses Software ...

It's been two years since Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates talked up Dryad, Microsoft's concurrent-programming competitor to Google's MapReduce and Apache Hadoop. But this week, Dryad was back on the ...

We will also discuss how to debug and check concurrent programs, which may give your different behaviors at different executions. REQUIRED TEXT: Herlihy and Shavit, The Art of Multiprocessor ...

From new features like async return types and advice on when to use the latest structures, here's Microsoft MVP Jason Bock's top tips for developers currently working with concurrent and asynchronous ...

We will also discuss how to debug and check concurrent programs, which may give your different behaviors at different executions. REQUIRED TEXT: Herlihy and Shavit, The Art of Multiprocessor ...