03 — Async Patterns

Patterns

A book-shaped table of contents for reusable engineering patterns spanning object-oriented design, enterprise architecture, distributed systems, messaging, APIs, cloud infrastructure, observability, security, concurrency, AI/agentic systems, and organizational design — grounded in production experience at scale.

02 — Lock-Free Programming

Compare-and-Swap, Atomic Variables, and Wait-Free vs. Lock-Free Queues — trading locks for retry loops to avoid blocking, priority inversion, and deadlock.

01 — Threading Patterns

Thread Pool, Producer-Consumer, and Reader-Writer — the foundational patterns for sharing work and data across threads without corrupting either.

Patterns

A book-shaped table of contents for reusable engineering patterns spanning object-oriented design, enterprise architecture, distributed systems, messaging, APIs, cloud infrastructure, observability, security, concurrency, AI/agentic systems, and organizational design — grounded in production experience at scale.

02 — Pattern Selection & Trade-offs

How to choose between competing patterns under real forces: naming the context, weighing trade-offs and consequences, composing multiple patterns together, and recognizing when a pattern has outlived its fit.