Modern Concurrency in Java: A Deep Dive Into Virtual Threads, Structured Concurrency, and Scoped Values

Rahman, A N M Bazlur

ISBN 10: 1098165411 / ISBN 13: 9781098165413

Published by O'Reilly Media, 2025

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Modern Concurrency in Java: A Deep Dive Into Virtual Threads, Structured Concurrency, and Scoped Values
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1098165411
• ISBN 13: 9781098165413
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: very good

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Synopsis

Welcome to the future of Java. With this book, you'll explore the transformative world of Java 21's key feature: virtual threads. Remember struggling with the cost of thread creation, encountering limitations on scalability, and facing difficulties in achieving high throughput? Those days are over. This practical guide takes you from Java 1.0 to the cutting-edge advancements of Project Loom.

You'll learn more than just theory. Author A N M Bazlur Rahman equips you with a toolkit for taking real-world action. Take a deep dive into the intricacies of virtual threads and complex topics such as ForkJoinPool, continuation, rate limiting, debugging, and monitoring. You'll not only learn how they work, but you'll also pick up expert tips and tricks to help you master these concepts. And you'll learn about structured concurrency and scoped values—critical skills for building Java applications that are scalable and efficient.

• Get an in-depth understanding of virtual threads
• Understand the implementation of virtual thread internals
• Gain performance improvement in blocking operations
• Learn why structured concurrency is beneficial
• Know where to use scoped value
• Understand the relevance of reactive Java with the advent of virtual threads

About the Author

A N M Bazlur Rahman is a Software Engineer with over a decade of specialized experience in Java and related technologies. An active speaker at various international conferences and Java user groups, his talks have often focused on specialized topics such as concurrency and virtual threads. He is a Java Champion and an editor for Java Queue at InfoQ and Foojay.io. He is the founder and current moderator of the Java User Group in Bangladesh, where he has organized educational meetups and conferences since 2013.