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Master Tokio Runtime

Getting Started

1.Introduction: How This Course Works
2.Threads, Async, and Where Tokio Fits
3.Your First Tokio Program

Async Foundations

4.Futures and async/await
5.Polling, Wakers, and a Tiny Executor

Tasks and Time

6.Spawning Tasks
7.join!, try_join!, and Running Work Concurrently
8.Cancellation, abort, and Panics
9.select!: Racing Futures
10.Blocking and CPU-Bound Work
11.Time: sleep, timeout, and interval
12.Workshop 1: Tasks and Time

Shared State and Channels

13.Shared State: Mutex and RwLock
14.Semaphore, Notify, Barrier, and OnceCell
15.mpsc Channels
16.oneshot, broadcast, and watch
17.Workshop 2: Shared State and Channels

Async I/O

18.AsyncRead and AsyncWrite
19.TCP Clients and Servers
20.UDP and Unix Sockets
21.Files, Processes, and Signals
22.Workshop 3: Async I/O

Concurrency Patterns

23.JoinSet and Structured Concurrency
24.Graceful Shutdown
25.Backpressure and Load Shedding
26.Actors, Worker Pools, and Pipelines
27.Workshop 4: Concurrency Patterns

Streams and Protocols

28.Streams
29.Bytes and Framing
30.Codecs with tokio-util
31.Workshop 5: Streams and Protocols

Runtime Internals

32.Writing Futures and Streams by Hand
33.Runtime Builder and the Scheduler
34.The Reactor, the Timer Wheel, and Task Layout
35.Workshop 6: Runtime Internals

Production Tokio

36.Error Handling in Async Code
37.Tracing and Observability
38.Testing Async Code
39.Performance and Tuning
40.Common Pitfalls and How to Debug Them
41.The Tokio Ecosystem
42.Workshop 7: Production Practice

Interview Practice

43.Interview Questions: Concepts, Internals, and Production
44.Interview Coding, Bug-Spotting, and Design Questions

Master Tokio Runtime

Getting Started

1.Introduction: How This Course Works
2.Threads, Async, and Where Tokio Fits
3.Your First Tokio Program

Async Foundations

4.Futures and async/await
5.Polling, Wakers, and a Tiny Executor

Tasks and Time

6.Spawning Tasks
7.join!, try_join!, and Running Work Concurrently
8.Cancellation, abort, and Panics
9.select!: Racing Futures
10.Blocking and CPU-Bound Work
11.Time: sleep, timeout, and interval
12.Workshop 1: Tasks and Time

Shared State and Channels

13.Shared State: Mutex and RwLock
14.Semaphore, Notify, Barrier, and OnceCell
15.mpsc Channels
16.oneshot, broadcast, and watch
17.Workshop 2: Shared State and Channels

Async I/O

18.AsyncRead and AsyncWrite
19.TCP Clients and Servers
20.UDP and Unix Sockets
21.Files, Processes, and Signals
22.Workshop 3: Async I/O

Concurrency Patterns

23.JoinSet and Structured Concurrency
24.Graceful Shutdown
25.Backpressure and Load Shedding
26.Actors, Worker Pools, and Pipelines
27.Workshop 4: Concurrency Patterns

Streams and Protocols

28.Streams
29.Bytes and Framing
30.Codecs with tokio-util
31.Workshop 5: Streams and Protocols

Runtime Internals

32.Writing Futures and Streams by Hand
33.Runtime Builder and the Scheduler
34.The Reactor, the Timer Wheel, and Task Layout
35.Workshop 6: Runtime Internals

Production Tokio

36.Error Handling in Async Code
37.Tracing and Observability
38.Testing Async Code
39.Performance and Tuning
40.Common Pitfalls and How to Debug Them
41.The Tokio Ecosystem
42.Workshop 7: Production Practice

Interview Practice

43.Interview Questions: Concepts, Internals, and Production
44.Interview Coding, Bug-Spotting, and Design Questions

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Runtime Internals

Custom futures, runtime configuration, the scheduler, the reactor, timers, and task layout.

4 lessons

32.Writing Futures and Streams by Hand
33.Runtime Builder and the Scheduler
34.The Reactor, the Timer Wheel, and Task Layout
35.Workshop 6: Runtime Internals

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