Locks are tricky — let's understand them by building one - Adam Furmanek NDC Melbourne 2022

We're often told that message passing is better than sharing the memory and protecting it with critical sections. But why? Can't we just use lock keyword and call it a day? What can go wrong? In this talk we'll dwell into concurrency primitives to understand how they work and what risks they bring. We'll understand async magic. Finally, we'll build a couple of custom primitives, for both non-async and async world in C#. Check out more of our featured speakers and talks at https://www.ndcconferences.com https://ndcmelbourne.com/