How to Prevent Race Conditions in Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin's coroutines don't automatically prevent race conditions - it's up to the developer to deal with them! The good news is that Kotlin gives us several tools to choose from, including atomics, confinement, mutexes, and more. In this video, we'll take a look at all of them, and when you might want to use each one. 📝 Corresponding article: https://typealias.com/articles/preven... 🚀 Newsletter: https://newsletter.typealias.com/ 🎉 Coroutines course: https://courses.typealias.com/coroutines ✨ New to Kotlin? Start your journey here: https://typealias.com/start/ 🎞️ Chapters in this video 00:00 - Race Conditions in Coroutines 01:18 - Atomics 02:17 - StateFlow 03:03 - Mutex (Mutual Exclusion) 04:20 - Confinement with limitedParallelism 05:35 - Confinement with Actors 07:29 - Avoiding Shared Mutable State 08:17 - Summary of Options