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The ultimate guide to Ruby concurrency interviews. Developed by FAANG engineers, this course covers Monitors, Deferred Callbacks and problem-solving strategies for Reader-Writer and Dining Philosopher Problems.

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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.

Concurrency in Ruby is one of the most complex and advanced topics brought up during senior engineering interviews. Knowledge of...Show More

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58 Lessons20 Quizzes

The Basics

15 Lessons

Sharpen your skills in understanding concurrency, threads, synchronization, and key programming concepts.

Introduction

Program vs Process vs Thread

Concurrency vs Parallelism

Cooperative Multitasking vs Preemptive Multitasking

Synchronous vs Asynchronous

I/O Bound vs CPU Bound

Throughput vs Latency

Critical Sections & Race Conditions

Deadlocks, Liveness & Reentrant Locks

Mutex vs Semaphore

Mutex vs Monitor

Hoare vs Mesa Monitors

Semaphore vs Monitor

Amdahl's Law

Moore’s Law

API Overview

17 Lessons

Unpack the core of Ruby's threading models, synchronization mechanisms, exception handling, and GIL.

Creating Threads

... continued

Sleeping and Terminating Threads

Exception Handling in Threads

Global Interpreter Lock

Brief Intro to Asynchronous Programming

5 Lessons

Examine concurrency, fibers, and asynchronous programming, enhancing web server performance and resource management.

Interview Practice Problems

15 Lessons

Apply your skills to tackle concurrency problems and ensure efficient multi-threaded synchronization.

Implementing Semaphore

Blocking Queue | Bounded Buffer | Consumer Producer

... continued

Rate Limiting Using Token Bucket Filter

Thread Safe Deferred Callback

ReadWrite Lock

Unisex Bathroom Problem

Implementing a Barrier

Uber Ride Problem

Dining Philosophers

Barber Shop

Asynchronous to Synchronous Problem

Multithreaded Merge Sort

Thread-safe Singleton

Bonus Questions

5 Lessons

Solve problems in Ruby concurrency with ordered printing, number series, FooBar, molecule building, and FizzBuzz tasks.

Ordered Printing

Printing Number Series (Zero, Even, Odd)

Printing FooBar n Times

Build a Molecule

Fizz Buzz Problem

Epilogue

1 Lessons

Investigate ongoing self-improvement and teamwork's role in mastering senior engineering interviews.

Acknowledgements

Certificate of Completion

Showcase your accomplishment by sharing your certificate of completion.

Course Author:

C. H. Afzal

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