Castiblanco Torres Learning Concurrency in Kotlin

Build highly efficient and scalable applications
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-78862-672-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 266 Seiten

Take advantage of Kotlin\'s concurrency primitives to write efficient multithreaded applicationsKey Features - Understand Kotlin’s unique approach to multithreading
- Learn how to write concurrent non-blocking code with the help of practical examples
- Improve the overall execution speed in multiprocessor and multicore systems
Book DescriptionKotlin is a modern and statically typed programming language with support for concurrency. Complete with detailed explanations of essential concepts, practical examples and self-assessment questions, Learning Concurrency in Kotlin addresses the unique challenges in design and implementation of concurrent code. This practical guide will help you to build distributed and scalable applications using Kotlin. Beginning with an introduction to Kotlin's coroutines, you’ll learn how to write concurrent code and understand the fundamental concepts needed to write multithreaded software in Kotlin. You'll explore how to communicate between and synchronize your threads and coroutines to write collaborative asynchronous applications. You'll also learn how to handle errors and exceptions, as well as how to work with a multicore processor to run several programs in parallel. In addition to this, you’ll delve into how coroutines work with each other. Finally, you’ll be able to build an Android application such as an RSS reader by putting your knowledge into practice. By the end of this book, you’ll have learned techniques and skills to write optimized code and multithread applications.What you will learn - Build secure applications by testing your concurrent code
- Implement sequential and asynchronous suspending functions
- Create suspending data sources that can be resumed on demand
- Explore best practices for error handling
- Use channels to communicate between coroutines
- Discover how coroutines help to build parallel applications
Who this book is forIf you’re a Kotlin or Android developer interested in learning how to write concurrent code to enhance the performance of your applications, then this is the book for you. Basic programming knowledge of Java or Kotlin will help you understand the concepts covered in this book.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Castiblanco Torres, Miguel Angel

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Programmierung | Softwareentwicklung Programmier- und Skriptsprachen
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Programmierung | Softwareentwicklung Objektorientierte Programmierung
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Technische Informatik Grid-Computing & Paralleles Rechnen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Contents - Hello Concurrent World!

- Coroutines in Action
- Lifecycle and Error Handling

- Suspending Functions and The Coroutine Context
- Generators: Iterators and Sequences_noimages
- Channels: Share Memory by Communicating
- Thread Confinement, Actors, and Mutexes
- Testing Concurrent Code

- How Coroutines Work?

Über Autor(innen)

Castiblanco Torres Miguel Angel :

Miguel Angel Castiblanco Torres is a software engineer living in the United States. He works as a full-stack technical leader and software designer at Globant, where he has led many successful projects for a Forbes' Top Ten World's Most Valuable Brand and Top Five Regarded Company. Passionate about what's next, Miguel was an early adopter of Kotlin, writing about Kotlin's concurrency primitives from the first beta release of coroutines. He always keeps an eye on the new and upcoming features of Kotlin.