Concurrency
Concurrency
Thread safety, producer-consumer, locking strategies, thread pools.
1 min readDesigns · LLD & Patterns
Concurrency in LLD interviews shows up as soon as multiple users hit the same resource — seat reservations, cache lookups, queue draining.
Thread Safety
Atomicity, visibility, ordering — synchronized vs Atomic vs volatile
Producer-Consumer
Decouple work generation from work processing with a bounded queue
Read-Write Lock
Many readers OR one writer for read-heavy workloads
Thread Pool
Reuse worker threads for predictable performance
Finished reading?
Mark it done to track your progress in Designs.