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Fresh Async with Kotlin

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Summary

Roman Elizarov talks about various approaches to asynchronous programming, their evolution, differences and similarities. He discusses the traditional async/await approach that is based on futures/promises and how the Kotlin’s solution that is based on concepts of coroutines and continuations is providing a safer and easier programming model.

Bio

Roman Elizarov works as Software Engineer Developing Kotlin at JetBrains. He is an expert in Java and JVM, particularly in concurrency, real-time data processing, algorithms and performance optimizations for modern architectures.

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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.

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Jan 18, 2018

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