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Learning Concurrent Programming in Scala - Second Edition

By : Aleksandar Prokopec
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Learning Concurrent Programming in Scala - Second Edition

By: Aleksandar Prokopec

Overview of this book

Scala is a modern, multiparadigm programming language designed to express common programming patterns in a concise, elegant, and type-safe way. Scala smoothly integrates the features of object-oriented and functional languages. In this second edition, you will find updated coverage of the Scala 2.12 platform. The Scala 2.12 series targets Java 8 and requires it for execution. The book starts by introducing you to the foundations of concurrent programming on the JVM, outlining the basics of the Java Memory Model, and then shows some of the classic building blocks of concurrency, such as the atomic variables, thread pools, and concurrent data structures, along with the caveats of traditional concurrency. The book then walks you through different high-level concurrency abstractions, each tailored toward a specific class of programming tasks, while touching on the latest advancements of async programming capabilities of Scala. It also covers some useful patterns and idioms to use with the techniques described. Finally, the book presents an overview of when to use which concurrency library and demonstrates how they all work together, and then presents new exciting approaches to building concurrent and distributed systems. Who this book is written for If you are a Scala programmer with no prior knowledge of concurrent programming, or seeking to broaden your existing knowledge about concurrency, this book is for you. Basic knowledge of the Scala programming language will be helpful.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Learning Concurrent Programming in Scala - Second Edition
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Summary


In this chapter, we learned about the reactor model, and its implementation in the Reactors framework. We saw how to define and instantiate reactors, compose event streams, customize reactor names and assign schedulers, use reactor system services, and define custom ones. Importantly, we saw how to use a few basic low-level protocols such as the server-client, router, and the two-way connection protocol.

To learn more about reactors, you can find a lot of information on the website of the Reactors framework, at http://reactors.io. The Reactors framework is relatively new, but it is under constant development. As the framework matures and gains more features, you will find more and more information on the website. To learn more about the reactor programming model itself, the paper Reactors, Channels, and Event Streams for Composable Distributed Programming is worth taking a look at.