Richard Warburton and Raoul-Gabriel Urma on Java 8 and Reactive Programming

The O’Reilly Programming Podcast: Building reactive applications.

In this episode of the O’Reilly Programming Podcast, I talk with Richard Warburton and Raoul-Gabriel Urma of Iteratr Learning. They are the presenters of a series of O’Reilly Learning Paths, including Getting Started with Reactive Programming and Build Reactive Applications in Java 8. Warburton is the author of Java 8 Lambdas, and Urma is the author of Java 8 in Action.

Discussion points:

The benefits to developers that came out of the introduction of lambdas and streams in Java 8

How Akka’s actor model helps in the creation of reactive and asynchronous applications

Comparing the uses of RxJava versus the Java 8 streams API to develop reactive code

Warburton’s and Urma’s ideas for preparing the next generation of developers for the requirements of industry, the focus of their forthcoming book Real World Software Development

Other links:

The Learning Path Build Reactive Applications with RxJava, presented by Warburton and Urma

The Learning Path Build Reactive Applications with Akka, presented by Warburton and Urma

The video Programming Actors with Akka, presented by Warburton and Urma

Warburton has been involved as an organizer in the London Java Community

Urma is co-founder of Cambridge Spark and the Cambridge Coding Academy
The schedule for the O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference, February 25-28, 2018, in New York