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The Dos and Don'ts of Multithreading

Hubert Matthews describes some of the problems encountered in multithreading and discusses how to avoid them through appropriate design choices.

Hubert Matthews
on Jul 29, 2015

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Java EE 7 Using Eclipse

Arun Gupta explains how to do Java EE 7 development with Eclipse, leveraging the new APIs - WebSocket, Batch, JSON Processing, and Concurrency Utilities.

Arun Gupta
on Jul 23, 2015

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Concurrency: It’s Harder (and Easier) than You Think

Paul Butcher discusses difficulties with concurrency and some of the alternatives that help with this, focusing on Actors and how they help deal with threads and locks and make code clearer.

Paul Butcher
on Jun 13, 2015

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Flint: Fixing Linearizability Violations

The presenters introduce Flint, an automated fixing algorithm for composed Map operations suffering from atomicity violations, being able to fix 96% of the 48 faulty methods found in 27 popular apps.

Xiangyu Zhang Peng Liu Omer Tripp
on Apr 23, 2015

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Concurrency: It's Harder (and Easier) than You Think

Paul Butcher advises on using concurrency the right way in order to avoid its pitfalls.

Paul Butcher
on Apr 10, 2015

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Comfortable Concurrency

Dominic Robinson reflects on several concurrency models, trying to assess which is more pleasant to work with.

Dominic Robinson
on Oct 23, 2014

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Sweet Elixir! A Gentle Introduction to Erlang’s Cute Younger Brother Elixir

Ryan Cromwell introduces Elixir, a , functional distributed meta programming language inspired by Ruby and compiling to Erlang VM, covering pattern matching, pipelines and tail-call recursion.

Ryan Cromwell
on Oct 12, 2014

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Do Not Block Threads! A Blessing in Disguise or a Curse?

Sadek Drobi discusses how to use Futures and Iteratees to deal with blocking threads in a system with many IO calls and heavy threads.

Sadek Drobi
on Aug 31, 2014

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Akka for Concurrency Works

Duncan DeVore reviews the challenges of concurrent programming on the JVM and explores Akka, a toolkit and runtime for building highly concurrent, distributed applications on the JVM.

Duncan DeVore
on Aug 24, 2014

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10 Billion a Day, 100 Milliseconds Per: Monitoring Real-Time Bidding at AdRoll

Brian Troutwine shares insight on using Erlang for a highly concurrent and very low latency bidding system implemented by Adroll.

Brian Troutwine
on Aug 03, 2014

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The Haxl Project at Facebook

Simon Marlow describes a concurrency-based system built with Haskell that allows front-end programmers to write business logic to access all the back-end services in a concise and consistent way.

Simon Marlow
on Jun 15, 2014

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Fault Tolerance 101

Joe Armstrong discusses fault tolerant systems, summarizing the key features of Erlang and showing how they can be used for programming fault-tolerant and scalable systems on multi-core clusters.

Joe Armstrong
on Jun 05, 2014

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