Composable Futures with Akka 2.0

Mike Slinn gave this presentation at Google HQ April 18, 2012. The content is applicable for Java and Scala programmers. The book on which this talk is based is available at http://slinnbooks.com/books/futures. However both this presentation and the book are a bit stale - Scala and Akka have moved forward a lot in the last 2 years! You will find up-to-date online courses on Scala and Play at http://scalacourses.com Contents: 1:30 About Mike Slinn 3:47 Talk starts - hardware trends driving concurrency 5:25 Threading review and update 12:10 Definitions 13:35 java.util.concurrent review, update and relationship to hardware 16:00 Cache line ping-pong 25:20 Composition and map/reduce 27:45 Overview of five concurrency options 31:00 Akka dispatchers vs. j.u.c. 34:20 Dataflow 36:27 Actors 39:06 Futures 47:18 Benchmarking and tuning concurrency 52:32 Demo #1: Simple futures 1:08:30 Demo #2: Try/catch/finally constructs 1:13:08 Demo #3: flatMap