Learning Concurrent Programming in Scala

What this book covers

This book is organized into a sequence of chapters with various topics on concurrent programming. The book covers the fundamental concurrent APIs that are a part of the Scala runtime, introduces more complex concurrency primitives, and gives an extensive overview of high-level concurrency abstractions.

Chapter 1, Introduction, explains the need for concurrent programming, and gives some philosophical background. At the same time, it covers the basics of the Scala programming language that are required for understanding the rest of this book.

Chapter 2, Concurrency on the JVM and the Java Memory Model, teaches you the basics of concurrent programming. This chapter will teach you how to use threads, how to protect access to ...