Java 9 Concurrency - High-Level Elements - Udemy

Writing concurrent and parallel programming applications is a crucial skill for any Java programmer. Java 9 comes with a host of fantastic features, including significant performance improvements and new APIs. This video will take you through all the new APIs, showing you how to build parallel and multi-threaded applications. The video covers all the elements of the Java Concurrency API, with essential recipes that will help you take advantage of the exciting new capabilities. You will learn how to use parallel and reactive streams to process massive data sets. Next, you will move on to create streams and use all their intermediate and terminal operations to process big collections of data in a parallel and functional way. Further, you’ll discover a whole range of recipes for almost everything, such as thread management, synchronization, executors, parallel and reactive streams, and many more. At the end of the video, you will learn how to obtain information about the status of some of the most useful components of the Java Concurrency API and how to test concurrent applications using different tools.

About the Author

Javier Fernández González is a software architect with almost 15 years experience in Java technologies. He has worked as a teacher, researcher, programmer, analyst, and writer, and he now works as an architect in all types of projects related to Java, especially J2EE. As a teacher has over 1,000 hours of training in basic Java, J2EE, and the Struts framework. As a researcher, he has worked in the field of information retrieval, developing applications for processing large amounts of data in Java, and has participated as a co-author in several journal articles and conference presentations. Recently, he worked on developing J2EE web applications for various clients from different sectors (public administration, insurance, healthcare, transportation, and so on). He has also worked as a software architect. He is the author of the books, Java 7 Concurrency Cookbook and Mastering Concurrency Programming with Java 8 by Packt.