‘Prepare for what "Loom"s ahead’ with Dr.Heinz Kabutz

We are super happy to announce our first physical meetup after covid-19. We will be hosting Dr.Heinz Kabutz who will be coming from Crete to talk to us. Heinz is a Java Champion, author of the Java Specialists Newsletter, and regular speaker.

Talk Details:
Prepare for what "Loom"s ahead

Everyone is talking about how Project Loom will make concurrency child's play. Instead of reactive or asynchronous systems, we make a gazillion virtual threads. This should be simpler, but it also has dangers. For example, what happens if one task takes longer than expected? Or if it blocks forever? How can we force a task to stop? Has Project Loom made the ordinary ConcurrentHashMap slower?

In this talk, we will show a brief introduction to Project Loom. We then look at how we can prepare our code bases so that the migration to Loom is easier. We show how long-running tasks impact the liveness of our system. We look at what type of code we will need to refactor so that it is ready when Loom lands.

Author: Heinz is the author of The Java Specialists’ Newsletter (https://www.javaspecialists.eu), a publication enjoyed by tens of thousands of Java experts in over 150 countries.

The talk will be delivered in English

Detailed schedule
19:00 - 19:15 : Arrival - Socializing
19:15 - 20:15 : Prepare for what "Loom"s ahead
20:15 - 21:00 : Pizzas / Socializing

We would also like to announce there are new job posting in our job board: https://www.meetup.com/Thessaloniki-Not-Only-Java/messages/boards/thread/42675122/20#133507655. You can check them out if you are interested!

Advantage FSE https://www.afse.eu/ will be sponsoring our pizzas for the event! They are also looking for java developers. You can see them https://www.meetup.com/Thessaloniki-Not-Only-Java/messages/boards/thread/42675122/20#133519955

As always the event is free of charge. Just bring your best mood and enjoy :)

See you all there!

Giorgos & Dimitris