Massively concurrent systems are the future, and shared data mutability is the obstacle to getting there. Where does that leave imperative languages like Java, that depend on mutation?
In this talk, we will cover the design of core.async, and then move directly to exploring core.async’s capabilities. Finally, we will assemble these primitives into substantial working programs, building toward the Holy Grail of async: substantial UI application development in the browser, with no callbacks in sight.
This talk will start by looking at some of the less well-understood problems with multi-threaded programming—everyone knows about deadlock and livelock, but do you know what the memory model says about concurrent code, and why that makes it even harder to write than you thought?
This talk will start by looking at some of the less well-understood problems with multi-threaded programming—everyone knows about deadlock and livelock, but do you know what the memory model says about concurrent code, and why that makes it even harder to write than you thought?
In this talk, we will cover the design of core.async, and then move directly to exploring core.async’s capabilities. Finally, we will assemble these primitives into substantial working programs, building toward the Holy Grail of async: substantial UI application development in the browser, with no callbacks in sight.
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From Doug Lea’s abstract: “Creating components based on concurrent and parallel algorithms and data structures often requires more attention to “engineering” issues not seen with most other libraries. Components created in the “obvious” way sometimes turn out to be wrong, to perform poorly, or are unusable in most applications, because the abstractions in which they … Read More
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Today’s podcast features Jonas Bonér, the creator of the Akka framework. If you’ve been listening to the podcast, especially to Episode #37 with Alex Miller on Java Concurrency, here is an alternative approach to providing scalability on the Java VM. Akka features an implementation of Actors, Software Transactional Memory, and Transactors, a hybrid approach to … Read More