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layout: pattern
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title: Producer Consumer
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folder: producer-consumer
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permalink: /patterns/producer-consumer/
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categories: Concurrency
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tags:
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- Java
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- Difficulty-Intermediate
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- I/O
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## Intent
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Producer Consumer Design pattern is a classic concurrency pattern which reduces
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coupling between Producer and Consumer by separating Identification of work with Execution of
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Work.
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## Applicability
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Use the Producer Consumer idiom when
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* decouple system by separate work in two process produce and consume.
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* addresses the issue of different timing require to produce work or consuming work
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