Learning Concurrent Programming in Scala
Dive into the Scala framework with this programming guide, created to help you learn Scala and to build intricate, modern, scalable concurrent applications
Published on 7. October 2025
366 pages
978-1-78328-142-8 (ISBN)
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Key Features
Book DescriptionThis book is a must-have tutorial for software developers aiming to write concurrent programs in Scala, or broaden their existing knowledge of concurrency. This book is intended for Scala programmers that have no prior knowledge about concurrent programming, as well as those seeking to broaden their existing knowledge about concurrency. Basic knowledge of the Scala programming language will be helpful. Readers with a solid knowledge in another programming language, such as Java, should find this book easily accessible.What you will learn
Get to grips with the fundamentals of concurrent programming on modern multiprocessor systems, with a particular focus on the JVM concurrency model
Build highperformance concurrent systems from simple, lowlevel concurrency primitives
Express asynchrony in concurrent computations with futures and promises
Seamlessly accelerate sequential programs by using dataparallel collections
Implement reactive and eventbased programs declaratively with Rxstyle event streams
Design safe, scalable, and easytocomprehend inmemory transactional data models
Transparently create distributed applications that scale across multiple machines
Choose the correct concurrency abstraction and integrate different concurrency frameworks together in large applications
Who this book is for
Book DescriptionThis book is a must-have tutorial for software developers aiming to write concurrent programs in Scala, or broaden their existing knowledge of concurrency. This book is intended for Scala programmers that have no prior knowledge about concurrent programming, as well as those seeking to broaden their existing knowledge about concurrency. Basic knowledge of the Scala programming language will be helpful. Readers with a solid knowledge in another programming language, such as Java, should find this book easily accessible.What you will learn
Get to grips with the fundamentals of concurrent programming on modern multiprocessor systems, with a particular focus on the JVM concurrency model
Build highperformance concurrent systems from simple, lowlevel concurrency primitives
Express asynchrony in concurrent computations with futures and promises
Seamlessly accelerate sequential programs by using dataparallel collections
Implement reactive and eventbased programs declaratively with Rxstyle event streams
Design safe, scalable, and easytocomprehend inmemory transactional data models
Transparently create distributed applications that scale across multiple machines
Choose the correct concurrency abstraction and integrate different concurrency frameworks together in large applications
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Edition
Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
Birmingham
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Edition type
Digital original
File size
3,66 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78328-142-8 (9781783281428)
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Felix Frank
Learning Concurrent Programming in Scala
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11/2014
Packt Publishing
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Prokopec Aleksandar :
Aleksandar Prokopec, who also authored the first edition of this book, is a concurrent and distributed programming researcher. He holds a PhD in computer science from the cole Polytechnique Fdrale de Lausanne, Switzerland. He has worked at Google and is currently a principal researcher at Oracle Labs. As a member of the Scala team at EPFL, Aleksandar actively contributed to the Scala programming language, and he has worked on programming abstractions for concurrency, data-parallel programming support, and concurrent data structures for Scala. He created the Scala Parallel Collections framework, which is a library for high-level data-parallel programming in Scala, and participated in working groups for Scala concurrency libraries, such as Futures, Promises, and ScalaSTM. Aleksandar is the primary author of the reactor programming model for distributed computing.
Aleksandar Prokopec, who also authored the first edition of this book, is a concurrent and distributed programming researcher. He holds a PhD in computer science from the cole Polytechnique Fdrale de Lausanne, Switzerland. He has worked at Google and is currently a principal researcher at Oracle Labs. As a member of the Scala team at EPFL, Aleksandar actively contributed to the Scala programming language, and he has worked on programming abstractions for concurrency, data-parallel programming support, and concurrent data structures for Scala. He created the Scala Parallel Collections framework, which is a library for high-level data-parallel programming in Scala, and participated in working groups for Scala concurrency libraries, such as Futures, Promises, and ScalaSTM. Aleksandar is the primary author of the reactor programming model for distributed computing.
Content
Table of Contents
Introduction
Concurrency on the JVM and the Java Memory Model
Classic Concurrency
Data-Parallel Collections
Asynchronous Programming with Futures
Functional Reactive Programming
Software Transactional Memory
Actors
Concurrency in Practice
Introduction
Concurrency on the JVM and the Java Memory Model
Classic Concurrency
Data-Parallel Collections
Asynchronous Programming with Futures
Functional Reactive Programming
Software Transactional Memory
Actors
Concurrency in Practice
