Articles tagged “concurrency” | Samuel Sorial's Blog

Feb 8, 2023concurrency

Pessimistic Concurrency Control - 2PL

How pessimistic concurrency control and two-phase locking coordinate database transactions while preserving correctness.

Jan 13, 2021operating system

A comparison of Mesa and Hoare monitor semantics, condition variables, and the synchronization guarantees each model provides.

Dec 31, 2020multithreading

How operating systems implement and model kernel threads, user threads, and hybrid threading approaches, with their core tradeoffs.

Dec 30, 2020multithreading

An introduction to thread abstraction, concurrency, process address spaces, execution state, and why operating systems use threads.