Jamie Allen: What you need to know about Lambdas
Lambdas are coming to the Java language in the upcoming release of Java 8! While this is generally great news, many Java developers have never experienced Lambdas before, and have not yet learned the best ways to use them for maximum productivity. In this talk, Jamie Allen discusses best practices for using Lambdas in Java and other JVM-based languages, and shows how we can make these constructs more usable in production. He also reviews concepts associated with lambdas to make sure everyone is on the same page, such as closures, higher order functions and the relationship between methods and functions and how they relate to Lambdas.
Lambdas are coming to the Java language in the upcoming release of Java 8! While this is generally great news, many Java developers have never experienced Lambdas before, and have not yet learned the best ways to use them for maximum productivity. In this talk, Jamie Allen discusses best practices for using Lambdas in Java and other JVM-based languages, and shows how we can make these constructs more usable in production. He also reviews concepts associated with lambdas to make sure everyone is on the same page, such as closures, higher order functions and the relationship between methods and functions and how they relate to Lambdas.