Tag: scala


Actor based parallelism using Scala and Akka : Part 1

Threads and locks are popular programming constructs because they tend to mimic what the underlying hardware does. However, use of threads and low level concurrency features require developers to have in-depth knowledge of memory model and often inner ...

Scala Futures

A Future instance represents the result of an asynchronous computation. Future is a lightweight parallelism API provided as part of Scala core. Scala Futures are easily interoperable with Java Futures and executor-service implementations To use Future...