The Mutex Club: Taming the Producer-Consumer Problem
TL;DR Coordinate your producers (chefs) and consumers (waiters) with a mutex for exclusive
The Mutex Club: Key LRU Cache Insights for the AI Builder
TL;DR LRU = hash map + doubly-linked list for O(1) lookups & recency updates.
The Mutex Club: Why Deadlock Is the Dinner Party Spoiler
Key Insights Deadlock is the system crash you didn’t ask for. In the
The Mutex Club: Golden Rules for Thread Safety 🔒
Key Insights # Minimize Locked Regions Hold locks only around the critical state you must
The Mutex Club: Why Smart APIs Dodge Deadlocks
Key Insights # Concurrency ≠ Parallelism Throwing more threads at your API isn’t like adding
The Mutex Club: How Fair Locks Defeat Starvation Once and for All
Key Insights – Starvation happens when a speedy worker thread keeps cutting the line, leaving
The Mutex Club: Why Thread Models and Mutexes Make or Break Your App
Understanding Mutexes in Your App A mutex (mutual exclusion lock) hands exclusive access to
The Mutex Club: Why Threads and Mutexes Aren’t Always the Answer
Key Insights ### Threads and Mutexes Aren’t Free Ever slapped a thread on your
The Mutex Club: Functional Concurrency Without the Lock-and-Key Drama
Introduction Welcome to the Mutex Club, where we design out our locks and live