"# Discussion of various thread management mechanisms, which include Task Executors # Discussion of Locks versus the traditional synchronized keywords, and ReadOnly and ReadWrite lock mechanisms # Concurrent Maps, CopyOnWriteArraySet and CopyOnWriteArrayList (among others) provide map, list and set
"Gearman provides a generic application framework to farm out work to other machines or processes that are better suited to do the work. It allows you to do work in parallel, to load balance processing, and to call functions between languages. It can be used in a variety of applications, from high-a