Concurrency in Ruby is one of the most complex and advanced topics brought up during senior engineering interviews. Knowledge of concurrency and multithreading can put interviewees at a considerable advantage. This course lays the foundations of advanced concurrency and multithreading and explains concepts such as Monitors and Deferred Callbacks in depth. It also builds simple and complete solutions to popular concurrency problems that can be asked about in interviews like the Reader-Writer Problem and the Dining Philosopher Problem. While prior knowledge of concurrency is not required to follow through with this course, familiarity with the basics of Ruby would be helpful.

Ruby Concurrency for Senior Engineering Interviews

In this lesson, let's learn what a monitor is and how it is different than a mutex. Monitors are advanced concurrency constructs and specific to language frameworks.

The Basics

API Overview

Brief Intro to Asynchronous Programming

Interview Practice Problems

Bonus Questions

Epilogue

Mutex vs Monitor