Virtual Threads in the JVM - Achieve Better Lightweight Concurrency Without Changing Your Code
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Trends & Future
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30'
Thread-per-request mode is the most common model in Java server-side programming today; however, this model is used mostly for I/O operation who often block the threads that are executing them, which is costly and limits the maximum number of requests. Developers could always solve this with an asynchronous programming model; on the other hand, this model is complicated and hard to debug. The ideal situation would be to have an efficiency of asynchronous programming and be able to program in usual, sequential order. That is where Virtual Threads introduced by Project Loom come in. Virtual Threads, formally known as Fibers, are created and managed by the JVM and only mapped to OS threads when they need to perform a specific task. This makes their creation, blocking, and spawning cheap. They also support the java.lang.Thread API, so developers would not even notice the difference (most of the time). In this presentation we will present how you can use Virtual Threads, compare them with OS threads, and show many potential benefits of such an approach.
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About speaker
Dora Beronić, author
Dora Beronic is a student at Rochester Institute of Technology Croatia (RIT Croatia), majoring in Information Technology with concentration on Web and Mobile Computing. She is interested in software architecture and optimizations as well as software development. She is currently working on a research about new concept of threads inside Java Virtual Machine (JVM) called Virtual Threads or Fibers used for enhancement of performance in java server-side applications.
Paula Pufek, coauthor
Paula Pufek is a student at the Rochester Institute of Technology Croatia (RIT Croatia), where she studies Information Technology with a concentration in Web and Mobile Computing. She is interested in software development as well as software architecture, and currently, she is working on a research about Automatic Memory Management and Garbage Collection algorithms in Java, including new Parallel Full G1 GC, the Z GC, and Shenandoah GC. Her other interests are web application development and user interface design, and she attends software development conference as much as she can.
Branko Mihaljević, coauthor
Branko Mihaljević is an educator, consultant, manager, and entrepreneur, dealing with Java since 1996. After 12 years of teaching at UNIZG FER, where he received dipl. ing. (MS), DSM, mr. sc., and dr. sc. (PhD), a few years at Algebra and VERN' colleges, as well as seven years as a co-owner and CTO of a development company, he is currently a Senior Lecturer and Research Assistant at RIT Croatia, one of the global locations of Rochester Institute of Technology, and leading his software consulting company. He gained experience as a consultant, software architect, project manager, development lead, and researcher on various projects in the financial, telecom, traffic, public health, and satellite systems sectors. He is the author of numerous scientific and professional papers, conference presentations, and popular Java-related articles. He worked on many research and professional projects, as well as delivered various university courses and professional workshops, and authored many educational materials. He is the president of the Croatian Java User Association (HUJAK).
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