🚀 Virtual Threads in Java
Virtual Threads Mastery: From Core Concepts to Real-World Implementation
Transform your team's concurrent programming expertise with a hands-on virtual threads workshop led by David
Vlijmincx - Oracle ACE, published author, and international conference speaker with 8+ years of enterprise Java
development experience.
Why Choose this workshop?
Battle-Tested Enterprise Expertise: Benefit from 8+ years of enterprise Java development experience,
distilled into practical, immediately applicable knowledge
Industry-Recognized Authority: Learn from an Oracle ACE who has authored two technical books and influenced
240,000+ developers annually through his technical blog
Tailored to Your Success: Each workshop is customized to your team's codebase and challenges, ensuring
immediate ROI
Future-Proof Investment: Lifetime access to updated materials keeps your team ahead of Java's evolution
Curriculum
This one-day intensive workshop covers both the theoretical foundations and practical applications of Virtual Threads in Java. Participants will gain hands-on experience with Project Loom's features while learning best practices for concurrent programming and migration strategies for existing applications.
Morning
Fundamentals of Virtual Threads
- What are virtual threads
- Project Loom overview
- Evolution from Platform Threads to Virtual Threads
- Core concepts and architecture
- Hands-on: Creating your first Virtual Thread
- Key differences from Platform Threads
- Performance characteristics and memory footprint
- Hands-on: starting with virtual threads
How virtual threads fit in Java
- Common use cases and patterns
- Executor services
- HTTP client/server scenarios
- Database operations
- File I/O operations
- Thread pinning and how to avoid it
- Hands-on: Building a concurrent web scraper
Afternoon
Structured concurrency
- What is Structured Concurrency
- Structured Concurrency with practical examples
- Creating a hierarchy of thread lifetimes
- shutdown policies
- Creating your own policies
- Hands-on: Find the object that matches the policy
Scoped values
- What are scoped values
- ThreadLocal shortcomings
- Rebinding scoped
- Scoped values with structured concurrency
- Hands-on: Migrating a legacy application
Micro benchmarking
- Profiling applications
- Running micro benchmarks with JMH
Workshop Feedback
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