NFJS 2021 Virtual Tour Stop #1
January 29, 2021
Get Ready for Asynchronous Programming on the JVM: The Significance of Project Loom
Friday - Jan 29 1:00 PM EST
Multithreaded programming in Java is changing quite significantly in the near future. Threads were once considered lightweight but soon will face the challenges of Fibers which are considered to be super lightweight.
In this presentation we will discuss the need for this significant change and how that's going to shake up the architecture and design of applications moving forward.
Venkat Subramaniam
Founder @ Agile Developer, Inc.
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.