Hands-on Workshop Kotlin Coroutines & Project Loom

Name: Hands-on Workshop Kotlin Coroutines & Project Loom
Start: 2023-09-28T17:30:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-28T21:30:00+02:00
Location: Nationale Spoorwegen (NS) - Katreinetoren

Hosted By

CodeLab

Hands-on Workshop Kotlin Coroutines & Project Loom

Details

We are excited to announce our first CodeLab.jug event! We invite you to join us in getting your hands dirty - in this great hands-on workshop.

The Nationale Spoorwegen (NS) is so kind to host this first event in Utrecht.

Summary

Working concurrently and asynchronously has produced many programming patterns: callbacks, futures, reactive extensions, and… coroutines. In this workshop we dive into what coroutines are, how they work and how to use them efficiently in Kotlin.

Program & Background

After this workshop you will not only be able to apply coroutines but also understand how error handling works, how to offload (IO) work to background threads, and how to compose coroutines, while keeping your programming style nice and imperative.

We also explore how Project Loom (Java 19+) will achieve the same goals using Java, and see how their approach differs from Kotlin coroutines.

Target Audience

Java/Kotlin developers

Objectives

Understand the concept of coroutines
Understand the differences between coroutines and other approaches to concurrent programming
Hands on experience in working with Kotlin coroutines
Work with coroutine life-cycle, context, error handling, threading and dispatching.
Work with more advanced coroutines features: Channels and Flow.
Re-write a real world (Spring-Boot) application to use coroutines
Understand the concept of virtual threads in Project Loom
Understand the differences between virtual threads and coroutines
Learn how to use structured concurrency in Project Loom
Hands on experience with virtual threads and structured concurrency using Spring-Boot