What’s this “Producer/Consumer” thing? It’s around us, everywhere. Every time you see some kind of workflow with multiple serial steps, that’s an example. A production line in a car factory, a fast-food kitchen, even the postal service.
So why do we care about it? Well, that’s easy: in almost every piece of software we write, there’s a pipeline to fulfill. And as every pipeline, once a step is completed the output is redirected to the next one in line, freeing up space for another execution.
