# Independent Work Units

> Work partitioned into discrete units that execute in isolation, without shared mutable state or ordering dependencies.

Record: `lexicon:independent-work-units`
Kind: constraint
Layer: [Structural Core](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/structural-core.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lexicon-independent-work-units

Listed in [Lexicon terms](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/lexicon.md), after [Hidden Dependencies](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/hidden-dependencies.md) and before [Large Input Handling](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/large-input-handling.md).

## Category

- [Core Vocabulary](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon-category/core-vocabulary.md)

## Required by

- [Parallelism](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/parallelism.md)
- [Fan-out/Fan-in](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/fan-out-fan-in.md)

## Linked from

- [Scalability / Performance / Optimization](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-scalability-performance-optimization.md)
- [Streaming / Pipeline / Dataflow Processing](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-streaming-pipeline-dataflow-processing.md)