Programming for multiple threads is not fundamentally different from writing an event-oriented GUI application or even a straight up sequential application. The important lessons of encapsulation, separation of concerns, loose coupling, etc. all apply. But developers get into trouble with multiple threads when they don’t apply those lessons; instead they try to apply the mostly-irrelevant bits of information they learned about threads and synchronization primitives from introductory multithreading texts.

lockfree, waitfree, obstructionfree synchronization algorithms and data structures, scalability-oriented architecture, multicore/multiprocessor design