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Concurrent Programming with Kotlin Coroutines

Coroutines are first class citizen in Kotlin. You can use it to program concurrency and parallel execution. In the world we live in, with big data and microservices, making asynchronous non-blocking calls is highly critical. In this session we will start by exploring the difference between parallel and concurrent execution. Then we will dive deep into the facilities of coroutines provided in Kotlin. We will learn how to create performant applications using the non-blocking API. We will also understand how Kotlin structures the execution of hierarchy of coroutines.

Parallel vs. Concurrent
Structure Coroutines
launch and async
Coroutine context
Programming asynchrony


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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