In this chapter, we will discuss how Scala supports the asynchronous programming API, using the following two APIs—Scala Future API and Scala Async API.
The Scala asynchronous programming (AP) API supports both Concurrency and true Parallelism very well, in an asynchronous way.
We will also discuss how to use the Scala Future API in the Play Framework and the Akka Toolkit on a high level, so that we can write Reactive applications using the Scala Future API in the coming chapters, using Play, Scala, Akka, and Akka Streams.
In this chapter, you will learn the following concepts:
- Scala Futures API
- The benefits of Scala Futures
- A Scala Future and its API
- Scala Future examples
- Differences between Scala Future and threads
- A Scala Promise and its API
- Scala Promises examples
- The Scala Async API and examples
- Differences between a Scala Future...
