Project Loom — a friend or foe of Reactive?

Day 2 /  / Track 1  /  RU

We heard about Project Loom — the new programming models on the Java platform for high-throughput lightweight concurrency and threading. Project Loom will give a structured concurrency in Java which enables writing efficient async apps using imperative paradigm. With that, many started questioning whether the Functional and Reactive approach remains with that in the Java ecosystem.

In that talk, guys are going to bust the myth of Loom killing Reactive and instead discuss how Loom will improve the Reactive ecosystem and make it more robust and simpler to use.


Speakers

Andrii Rodionov
National Technical University of Ukraine

Andrii is a JUG UA leader, associate professor at National Technical University. Participating in Oracle GraalVM Native Image project, interested in microservices and distributed systems.

Oleh Dokuka
VMware

Fan of Reactive. Works on RSocket and improves Project Reactor along the way. Co-author of the book "Hands‑On Reactive Programming in Spring 5". Java Champion.