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Go in Action - Review and Q&A with the Author

Go in Action is a new book from Manning that aims to provide a comprehensive introduction to Go, both its syntax and implementation, and its most common idioms. InfoQ has spoken with William Kennedy, author of the book.

Sergio De Simone
on Dec 04, 2015
Architecture & Design

UED: The Unified Execution Diagram

Today’s software applications have a lot of concurrent tasks that are distributed over multiple threads, processes, processors and PCs. This article introduces a visual modeling technique to describe and specify the application’s execution architecture. Within Philips Healthcare the Unified Execution Diagram has proven to be very useful for designing and documenting the execution architecture.

Pascal Wolkotte Carlo van Asma
on Oct 18, 2015
Java

A Post-Apocalyptic sun.misc.Unsafe World

The removal of sun.misc.Unsafe and other private APIs in Java 9 has in recent weeks divided the Java community perhaps as never before in its 20 year history. Even though a resolution has now been proposed and a migration path presented, the big question remains: What will a post sun.misc.Unsafe world look like?

Christoph Engelbert
on Aug 30, 2015
Elixir in Action Review and Q&A with the Author

Elixir in action is a new release from Manning that aims to introduce readers to Elixir and the Erlang virtual machine while also discussing concurrent programming topics, fault-tolerance, and topics related to high-availability. InfoQ has interviewed Saša Jurić, the book's author.

Sergio De Simone
on Aug 08, 2015
Functional-Style Callbacks Using Java 8's CompletableFuture

The innovation of parallel streams in Java 8 has diverted attention from a very substantial addition to the concurrency library, the CompletableFuture class. Author Maurice Naftalin eloquently explores CompletableFuture, why it is so useful in programming systems that depend on the interaction of asynchronous tasks, and how it complements fork/join-style parallelism, including parallel streams.

Maurice Naftalin
on Apr 22, 2015
Rescuing Checked Exceptions in Asynchronous Java Code

Java checked exceptions are a handy abstraction for a sequential workflow. When thread switches are introduced, even though the exception abstraction remains valid at the description level, the syntax support is no longer available. This article investigates how to overcome that syntactical limitation.

Dario Crivelli
on Oct 15, 2014
Hunting Java Concurrency Bugs

Concurrency bugs include race conditions, code reordering, field visibility issues, live locks, deadlocks and performance related bugs, such as contention and starvation. In this article Java Specialist Dr. Heinz Kabutz examines two threading bugs he discovered in the core Java libraries.

Dr. Heinz Kabutz
on Aug 05, 2014
8 Great Java 8 Features No One's Talking about

In this article Tal Weiss focuses on some lesser known API's in the new Java 8.

Tal Weiss
on May 30, 2014
Discover and Diagnose Java Concurrency Problems Using Contemplate's ThreadSafe

Writing Java software that correctly and safely makes use of concurrency requires careful thought. Software that incorrectly accounts for concurrency can contain intermittent defects that elude even the most rigorous testing regimes. Static analysis tools can analyze source code or compiled bytecode to discover latent bugs hidden within code, long before it is executed.

Robert Atkey
on Jan 14, 2014
Book Review and Interview: Real World OCaml

The new book Real World OCaml provides a deep dive into the OCaml programming language. InfoQ caught up with the authors to hear about real world Ocaml users, its unique features, and much more.

Werner Schuster
on Jan 08, 2014
Inter-thread communications in Java at the speed of light

Developing a light-weight, lockless, inter-thread communication framework in Java without using any locks, synchronizers, semaphores, waits, notifies; and no queues, messages, events or any other concurrency specific words or tools. Just get POJOs communicating behind plain old Java interfaces.

Aliaksei Papou
on Dec 10, 2013
Joe Duffy on Uniqueness and Reference Immutability for Safe Parallelism

We interviewed Joe Duffy, author of Concurrent Programming on Windows, about his research into the use of type systems to ensure safe parallelism. This work was presented in the paper titled Uniqueness and Reference Immutability for Safe Parallelism. We asked for this interview because there seemed to be a lot of misconceptions about this research project.

Jonathan Allen
on Apr 11, 2013