The Future of Threads on the JVM: Impact of Continuations and Fibers
Tuesday, 10:30 AM EST - OPAL SAND
Once considered lightweight, threads in reality take up significant memory and thus turn into a limitation for true scale. The JVM is heading towards creating fibers which are lightweight compared to threads and have the potential to be truly non-blocking. Mixed with continuations, which are data structures that can preserve state between calls, we can create highly effective asynchronous applications that can scale to a much greater extent than threads.
Come to this presentation to learn the future of threads and asynchronous programming on the JVM.
About Venkat Subramaniam
Dr. Venkat Subramaniam is an award-winning author, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., creator of agilelearner.com, and an instructional professor at the University of Houston.
He has trained and mentored thousands of software developers in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia, and is a regularly-invited speaker at several international conferences. Venkat helps his clients effectively apply and succeed with sustainable agile practices on their software projects.
Venkat is a (co)author of multiple technical books, including the 2007 Jolt Productivity award winning book Practices of an Agile Developer. You can find a list of his books at agiledeveloper.com. You can reach him by email at venkats@agiledeveloper.com or on twitter at @venkat_s.
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