Presentation: Tweet"Do not Block Threads! A Blessing in Disguise or a Curse?"
Track:
Reactive Programming - Tackling the Async Challenge
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Time:
Thursday 14:30 - 15:20
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Location:
Elizabeth Windsor
If your runtime doesn't support lightweight threads and your app has lot's of IO calls, then you are probably facing the famous "don't block threads!" advice. In this talk we will see how this simple statement leads to much more ceremony and complexity for managing this unfortunate state of affairs. We'll see how different tools like Futures and Iteratees (and co) provide solutions to get this complexity a bit more manageable.
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