The Mutex Club: Mastering Singletons, Thread Safety & Double-Checked Locking
Key Insights 1. One Instance Only The singleton pattern guarantees a single class instance
The Mutex Club: How Semaphore-Based Rate Limiters Actually Work (and Why They’re More Than Just Fancy Locks)
Semaphore Rate Limiting: The Velvet Rope for Your Threads Ever felt like your backend
The Mutex Club: How (and Why) to Build a Thread-Safe LRU Cache
The Thread-Safe LRU Cache, Deconstructed So you want to join the Mutex Club—the
The Dining Philosophers Problem: When Concurrency Goes From Fine Dining to Food Fight
Hungry for Answers: The Dining Philosophers Problem 🍽️ Picture this: five intellectuals, a bunch of
The Mutex Club: The Readers-Writers Conundrum Driving Developers Insane
The Mutex Club: The Readers-Writers Conundrum Driving Developers Insane Ever tried juggling ten SELECTs
The Mutex Club: Producer-Consumer with BlockingQueue (No Lock Drama)
Key Insights 1. BlockingQueue as your thread bouncer Java’s BlockingQueue (java.util.concurrent)
The Mutex Club: Mastering Thread-Safe Logging in Microservices
Key Insights 1. Thread-safe logging prevents a log soup When microservices spin up dozens
The Mutex Club: Semaphore vs. Rate Limiter – Who Gets to Play Traffic Cop?
Semaphores, Rate Limiting, and Why Your API Isn’t a Free-For-All Ever tried hitting
The Mutex Club: Taming Batch Jobs with Java’s ExecutorService
Key Insights 1. Batch Submission Patterns * Use submit() in a loop or the one-liner