Concurrency Coding Problems

Advanced · 26 min read · Low-Level Design, Concurrency & Code Craft

Print in order, bounded blocking queue, dining philosophers, thread-safe rate limiter, delayed scheduler and a parallel crawler: stress-tested solutions.

This is an Advanced lesson, part of Premium. What it covers:

• How to answer any concurrency problem
• 1. Print in order
• 2. Take turns (FooBar, odd/even printers)
• 3. Bounded blocking queue
• 4. Dining philosophers
• 5. Thread-safe rate limiter
• 6. Delayed task scheduler
• 7. Multithreaded web crawler
• Testing concurrent code
• Interview questions
• Practice
• Further reading

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