Hey! It's Gilbert's Digital Garden 🌱

Recent Notes

  • Neuromancer

    Aug 20, 2026

  • Randomize

    Aug 20, 2026

  • Recursion

    Aug 20, 2026

  • Upgrade

    Aug 20, 2026

  • What Nobody Tells You About Documentation

    Aug 20, 2026

Home

❯

Atomics

❯

Concurrency

Concurrency

Properties2
tags—
aliases

Feb 14, 20261 min read

Concurrency is often confused with parallelism. Concurrency is switching between to tasks and

Concurrency is about dealing with multiple things at once. It involves structuring a program to handle multiple tasks simultaneously, where the tasks can start, run, and complete in overlapping time periods, but not necessarily at the same instant.

References

  • ByteByteGo - Concurrency vs Parallelism
  • Concurrent Affairs: Procedural Programming Unlocked - Kevlin Henney - NDC London 2022 by Kevlin Hennley

Graph View

Backlinks

  • Go
  • Coding MOC

Created with Quartz v5.0.0 © 2026

  • Blog
  • LittleLink