The GoF Observer pattern

The GoF Observer pattern is also referred to as a publish-subscribe pattern in the GoF book. The idea is simple. EventSource (classes that emits events) will have a one-to-many relationship with event sinks (classes that listen to the event notification). Every EventSource will have a mechanism for the event sinks to subscribe to, in order to get different types of notification. A single EventSource might emit multiple events. An EventSource can send notifications to thousands of subscribers (event sinks or listeners) when there is a change in state or something significant happens in its realm. The EventSource will walk through the list of subscribers and notify them one by one. The GoF book was written at a time when the world was mostly doing sequential programming. Topics such as concurrency were mostly related to...