Explores futures as a structured approach to concurrency, simplifying parallel tasks and input-output operations.
Explores reactive programming principles, focusing on functions and pattern matching in Scala, including JSON representation and partial functions.
Covers the basics of parallelism, including physical examples, historical context, multicore era, and parallel collections in Scala.
Covers how classes and objects are organized in packages, imports, Scala's class hierarchy, traits, top types, the Nothing type, exceptions, and includes an exercise on type determination.
Covers efficient GPU-accelerated join optimization for complex queries, focusing on improving optimization times and heuristic plan quality.
