Summary
In this chapter, we studied worker pools and pipelines – two patterns that show up in different shapes and forms in almost every non-trivial project. There are many ways these patterns can be implemented with different runtime behaviors. You should build your systems so that they do not rely on the exact structure of the pipeline or the worker pools. I tried to show some ways to abstract away concurrency concerns from computation logic. These ideas may make your job easier when you need to iterate among different designs.
Next, we will talk about error handling and how error handling can be added to these patterns.
