Concurrency is a critical factor for solution design as you want your application to process multiple tasks simultaneously—for example, your application needs to handle multiple users simultaneously and process their requests in the background. Another example is when your web user interface needs to collect and process web cookie data to understand user interaction with the product while showing users their profile information and the product catalog. Concurrency is about doing multiple tasks at the same time.
People often get confused between parallelism and concurrency by thinking that they are both the same thing; however, concurrency is different from parallelism. In parallelism, your application divides an enormous task into smaller subtasks, which it can process in parallel with a dedicated resource for each subtask. In concurrency, however, an application processes multiple tasks at the same time by utilizing shared resources among the threads. The...
