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Simplifying Asynchronous Code With Scala Async

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Summary

Philipp Haller introduces Scala Async for asynchronous I/O with Futures and Promises.

Bio

Philipp Haller has been a member of the Scala team since 2006. His research on concurrent programming with race-free actors in Scala has been published in leading conferences, winning a best paper award. He is the creator of Scala’s first actors library which inspired Akka, as well as a contributor to the Scala language, standard library, and tools. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from EPFL.

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Strange Loop is a multi-disciplinary conference that aims to bring together the developers and thinkers building tomorrow's technology in fields such as emerging languages, alternative databases, concurrency, distributed systems, mobile development, and the web.

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Nov 25, 2013

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