Ruby Concurrency for Senior Engineering Interviews

INTERACTIVE COURSE

Ruby Concurrency for Senior Engineering Interviews

Beginner

58 Lessons

8h

Certificate of Completion

Ruby Concurrency for Senior Engineering Interviews

121 Playgrounds

20 Quizzes

43 Illustrations

Course Overview

Concurrency in Ruby is one of the most complex and advanced topics brought up during senior engineering interviews. Knowledge of concurrency and multithreading can put interviewees at a considerable advantage. This course lays the foundations of advanced concurrency and multithreading and explains concepts such as Monitors and Deferred Callbacks in depth. It also builds simple and complete solutions to popular concurrency problems that can be asked about in interviews like the Reader-Writer Problem and the ...Show More

Course Content

1

The Basics

Introduction Program vs Process vs Thread Concurrency vs Parallelism

Cooperative Multitasking vs Preemptive Multitasking Synchronous vs Asynchronous I/O Bound vs CPU Bound Throughput vs Latency Critical Sections & Race Conditions Deadlocks, Liveness & Reentrant Locks Mutex vs Semaphore Mutex vs Monitor Hoare vs Mesa Monitors Semaphore vs Monitor Amdahl's Law Moore’s Law

2

API Overview

Creating Threads ... continued Sleeping and Terminating Threads Exception Handling in Threads Thread Variables Mutex ...continued Condition Variables ... continued ... continued Monitor ... continued Global Interpreter Lock

Quiz 1 Quiz 2 Quiz 3 Quiz 4

3

Brief Intro to Asynchronous Programming

Introduction ... continued Fiber ... continued ... continued

4

Interview Practice Problems

Implementing Semaphore

Blocking Queue | Bounded Buffer | Consumer Producer ... continued ... continued Rate Limiting Using Token Bucket Filter Thread Safe Deferred Callback ReadWrite Lock Unisex Bathroom Problem Implementing a Barrier Uber Ride Problem Dining Philosophers Barber Shop Asynchronous to Synchronous Problem Multithreaded Merge Sort Thread-safe Singleton

5

Bonus Questions

Ordered Printing Printing Number Series (Zero, Even, Odd)

Printing FooBar n Times Build a Molecule

Fizz Buzz Problem

6

Epilogue

1 Lesson

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