Learning Scala Web Development (Video 4)

The video explores the actor model and its relevance to web services on the JVM platform. It discusses traditional concurrency methods, highlighting the challenges of multithreading, such as race conditions and synchronization issues. The shift to multicore processors necessitated a rethinking of software development to leverage new computing power. The video concludes by addressing the pitfalls of synchronization, including lock contention and nondeterminism, and sets the stage for exploring the actor model as an alternative concurrency approach.

Explain the concept of race conditions and their implications in concurrent programming.

What role does synchronization play in managing access to shared mutable state?

Describe the potential pitfalls of using too many threads in an application.