Mastering Multithreading Programming with Go (Golang)

Description

In this course, you will :

• Discover how to create responsive and high performance software.
• See how to use multithreading for modeling certain types of problems and simulations.
• Develop programs with Golang that are highly Concurrent and Parallel.
• Understand the advantages, limits and properties of Parallel computing.
• Improve your programming skills in Go with more advanced, mulithreading topics.
• Learn about goroutines, mutexes, reader writers locks, waitgroups, channels, condition variables and more.

Syllabus :

1. Creating and using Threads

• Processes, Threads and Green threads
• Using Goroutines for Boids
• Groundwork for our simulation
• Starting our Goroutines
• Memory sharing between Threads
• Memory Sharing example

 

2. Thread Synchronization with Mutexes

• Why do we need Locking?
• Using Mutexes in Boid simulation
• Adding Synchronization to simulation
• Readers-Writer Locks
• Boid Synchronization with Readers-Writers Locks

 

3. Waiting for Completed tasks

• Understanding WaitGroups
• Concurrent file searching with WaitGroups

 

4. Message passing with Channels

• Thread Communication using Channels
• Pipelining Example
• Understanding Thread Pools
• Thread Pool Example
• Shoelace algorithm explained (optional)

 

5. Synchronization using Condition Variables

• What's a Condition Variable?
• Parallel Algorithm for Matrix Multiplication
• Implementing Parallel Matrix Multiplication

 

6. Deadlocks

• Deadlocking Robots, Philosophers and Trains
• Simple Deadlock Example
• Train Deadlock Example 
• Solving Deadlocks using Resource Hierarchy
• Implementing Resource Hierarchy Solution
• Solving Deadlocks using an Arbitrator
• Implementing Arbitrator Solution

 

7. Barriers

• Barriers Explained
• Building a Barrier
• Barriers with Matrix Multiplication

 

8. Atomic Variables

• Understanding Atomic Variables
• Atomic Variables Example
• Building a Letter Frequency Program
• Using Atomic Variables in our Example

 

9. Spinning Locks

• Locking using Spinning locks
• Building our own Spinning locks
• Ledger Example
• Implementing the Ledger

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