From Threads to Futures: Getting a Result Back Asynchronously
Every task handed to an ExecutorService so far has been fire-and-forget. This article introduces Callable and Future, showing how to get a …
Every task handed to an ExecutorService so far has been fire-and-forget. This article introduces Callable and Future, showing how to get a …
CompletableFuture keeps the same idea as Future — a result that isn't ready yet — but adds the ability to attach transformations and …
Not every pipeline is a straight line. This article covers thenCompose for chaining dependent async steps and thenCombine for merging two …
An exception thrown inside an async stage doesn't crash a thread the way it would in synchronous code — it gets captured inside the …
Every CompletableFuture method has a plain version and an *Async version, and the difference is entirely about which thread runs the …
thenCombine merges exactly two futures. When a pipeline needs to fan out across an arbitrary list of async calls and fan back in, …
A pipeline that never times out will eventually hang forever on a slow dependency. This closing article of the phase covers orTimeout, …