Multithreaded Programming and IPC: Build a Custom Web Server

Modern high-performance applications rely on concurrency and efficient resource management to process thousands of requests simultaneously. Understanding how threads interact, share memory, and communicate across process boundaries is essential for developing robust backend systems. This text-based course provides a clear, beginner-friendly introduction to multithreading and inter-process communication (IPC). You will start by learning core concepts like thread lifecycles, memory isolation, and race conditions before moving on to practical synchronization mechanisms. Through detailed explanations and written code examples, you will apply these concepts to construct a working, concurrent web server. What you'll learn: Understand foundational concepts of processes, threads, and memory sharing. Implement synchronization techniques using mutexes, locks, and semaphores. Master inter-process communication methods including pipes, message queues, and sockets. Explore modern non-blocking I/O patterns and thread pool architectures. Design concurrent systems capable of handling multiple network client connections. Build a functional multithreaded web server to put concurrent principles into practice. You will begin with essential operating system definitions and theoretical models of execution. Once foundational topics are established, the course guides you through structured text lessons that demonstrate how to manage thread safety, prevent deadlocks, and architect network services. This course is designed for beginner software engineers and computer science students with basic programming knowledge who want to learn concurrent systems development. No previous multithreading experience is required. Dive into the world of concurrency today and learn to build high-throughput network applications.