Practice - The 'Happens-Before' Relation (→)
Practice Questions
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Define the happens-before relation in your own words.
💡 Hint: Think about how events interact in a process.
What does it mean for two events to be concurrent?
💡 Hint: Consider processes that do not interfere with each other's operations.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What does the happens-before relation signify?
💡 Hint: Think about how events relate to one another.
If event A happens before event B, can we say B happens before A?
💡 Hint: Consider the nature of causation.
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Challenge Problems
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Given three events A, B, and C, describe a situation that illustrates that A → B, B → C, and consequently A → C.
💡 Hint: Think about dependencies in a typical business process.
Explain how a distributed system might handle a situation where two processes try to update a shared resource simultaneously without any synchronization.
💡 Hint: Find a way to prevent problems arising from concurrency.
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