Sleeping well in the lion's den with Monix Catnap
summary
Library that implements cooperative sleeping for Monix Tasks and integrates with the Monix Scheduler to avoid blocking threads. Demonstrates a small runtime change and a parking/unparking primitive that replaces Thread.sleep, shows benchmarks comparing blocking sleeps to Catnap’s non-blocking parking, reports far fewer blocked threads, lower latency under contention, and concrete code examples plus a link to slides and the published library so the feature can be dropped into real systems.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Introduction
- 10:00Monix Catnap overview
- 20:00Catnap features and uses
- 30:00Live Catnap demo
- 40:00Q&A
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