This chapter has hopefully directed you towards exploring methods to plan and chart out your concurrent applications before delving in. By briefly touching on race conditions and data consistency, we attempted to highlight the importance of anticipatory design. At the same time, we utilized a few tools for identifying such issues, should they occur.

Creating a robust script flowchart with concurrent processes will help you locate possible pitfalls before you create them, and it will give you a better sense of how (and when) your application should be making decisions with logic and data.

In the next chapter, we'll examine data consistency issues and look at advanced channel communication options in an effort to avoid needless and often expensive mitigating functions, mutexes, and external processes.