Twin Cities Software Symposium
October 20 - 21, 2017
Parallel Streams, Completable Futures, And All That
Saturday - Oct 21 4:30 PM CDT - SALON B
This talk covers the concurrency and parallelization options in Java 8 and above. Topics include: the difference between concurrency and parallelization, the stream model in Java, using parallel streams, measuring performance, the CompletableFuture class, coordinating futures, and more.
We'll also cover how to configure the number of threads in the common pool, how to use a separate thread pool, running with an executor service, and under what conditions parallelization helps in Java.
Kenneth Kousen
President, Kousen IT, Inc.
About Kenneth Kousen
Ken Kousen is a Java Champion, several time JavaOne Rock Star, and a Grails Rock Star. He is the author of the Pragmatic Library books “Mockito Made Clear” and “Help Your Boss Help You,” the O'Reilly books “Kotlin Cookbook”, “Modern Java Recipes”, and “Gradle Recipes for Android”, and the Manning book “Making Java Groovy”. He also has recorded over a dozen video courses for the O'Reilly Learning Platform, covering topics related to Android, Spring, Java, Groovy, Grails, and Gradle.
His academic background include BS degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics from M.I.T., an MA and Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from Princeton, and an MS in Computer Science from R.P.I. He is currently President of Kousen IT, Inc., based in Connecticut.