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Do Not Block Threads! A Blessing in Disguise or a Curse?
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Summary
Sadek Drobi discusses how to use Futures and Iteratees to deal with blocking threads in a system with many IO calls and heavy threads.
Bio
Sadek Drobi is a software engineer specialized in bridging the gap between the problem domain and the solution domain. As a core Play developer and Play2 co-creator, he works on the design and implementation of the framework.
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Software is Changing the World. QCon empowers software development by facilitating the spread of knowledge and innovation in the developer community. A practitioner-driven conference, QCon is designed for technical team leads, architects, engineering directors, and project managers who influence innovation in their teams.
Aug 31, 2014
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When I took the Functional Programming in Scala class, the topics introduced Futures / async etc
but that like ... introduction of concepts.
the clarity in paying the price is not known.
This talks tells that there is a price to paid, but each developer would know it by his own experience.