STM and Clojure: An Article Recommendation
Your friend and mine, Mark Volkmann, has written an excellent, thorough article over at the OCI Java News Brief (I work for an affiliate of OCI).
The article first places Software Transactional Memory (STM) within the milieu of other concurrency techniques. I especially like the emphasis on transactional, as I found that as a stumbling block in the past. (It does not necessarily mean a database!)
The article goes on to work though some serious study of STM in Clojure. Great stuff....