Chapter 3. Multithreading and Reactive Programming
In this lesson, we will look at an approach to support a high performance of an application by programmatically splitting the task between several workers. That was how the pyramids were built 4,500 years ago, and this method has not failed to deliver since then. But there is a limitation on how many laborers can be brought to work on the same project. The shared resources provide a ceiling to how much the workforce can be increased, whether the resources are counted in square feet and gallons (as the living quarters and water in the time of the pyramids) or in gigabytes and gigahertz (as the memory and processing power of a computer).
Allocation, usage, and limitations of a living space and computer memory are very similar. However, we perceive the processing power of the human workforce and CPU quite differently. Historians tell us that thousands of ancient Egyptians worked on cutting and moving massive stone blocks at the same...
