Scala Execution Context

Scala Future Under The Hood

August 2, 2016January 31, 2017Future, Studio-Scalaconcurrency, Future, Java Executor, Parallel Processing, Scala Execution Context, Scala Futures, technology

Reading Time: 3 minutes In the previous post, i was discussing about Scala ExecutionContext. As we know, for multithreading we need to maintain thread pools using ExecutionContext and by default ForkJoinPool is used because for accessing “multi core” processor. There are multiple thread pools are available in our java.util.concurrent.Executors utility class and as per our requirement we can create new one also. After all, Scala have concept of Future. Continue Reading

Java Executor Vs Scala ExecutionContext

July 25, 2016November 20, 2016Studio-Scalaconcurrency, java, Java Executor, Java Executors, Parallel Processing, Scala Execution Context, Scala vs Java, technology

Reading Time: 3 minutes Java supports low-level of concurrency and some of rich api’s which is just a wrapper of low-level constructs like wait, notify, synchronize etc, But with Java concurrent packages Scala have high level concurrency frameworks for “which goal to achieve, rather than how to achieve“. These types of programming paradigms are “Asynchronous programming using Futures“, “Reactive programming using event streams“, “Actor based programming” and more. Note: Continue Reading