# Leveraging the Semaphore concept in Coroutines to limit the parallelism 🔀

DevFeed: [Leveraging the Semaphore concept in Coroutines to limit the parallelism 🔀](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/leveraging-the-semaphore-concept-in-coroutines-to-limit-the-parallelism-25734.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.shreyaspatil.dev/leveraging-the-semaphore-concept-in-coroutines-to-limit-the-parallelism/>)

Author: Shreyas Patil

Published: 2022-04-01T12:57:35Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Shreyas Patil's Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/shreyas-patil-s-blog.md>)

Topics: [kotlin-coroutines](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/kotlin-coroutines.md>), [Kotlin](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/kotlin.md>), [Concurrency](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/concurrency.md>), [Concurrent Programming](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/concurrent-programming.md>)

Tags: [android](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/android.md>), [concurrency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/concurrency.md>), [concurrent-programming](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/concurrent-programming.md>), [coroutines](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/coroutines.md>), [how-to](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/how-to.md>), [java](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/java.md>), [kotlin](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kotlin.md>), [kotlin-coroutines](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kotlin-coroutines.md>), [multithreading](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/multithreading.md>), [mutex](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mutex.md>), [synchronization](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/synchronization.md>), [threads](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/threads.md>)

## AI overview

A tutorial explaining semaphores in Kotlin coroutines, including binary and counting semaphores, and how permits limit parallel access to shared resources.

## Source excerpt

Explore the concept of Semaphores in Kotlin Coroutines. Learn how to limit parallelism and manage resource access in concurrent programming.