JetBrains Technology Day for Java – Let’s get lazy

Helen Scott

On the 10th July 2020, JetBrains hosted a Technology Day for Java. We had 10 presentations and the videos for them are available here. Over the coming weeks, in no particular order, we’d like to share with you extra resources that our speakers kindly provided and any links to further reading or code samples.

We hosted Venkat Subramaniam talking to us about how big data, or highly responsive applications, can scale to the increasing demands for speed and short response. The smart solution comes from being lazy; laziness can translate to efficiency and scalability.

In this presentation we started by learned the difference between ‘applicative order’ and ‘normal order’ with some live coding examples in a variety of languages which really drove the point home and helped us to understand what makes a ‘lazy’ language when it comes to evaluation (which Java is not).

Venkat talked to us about how important indirection is for ‘lazy evaluation’ and about how lambdas are a level of indirection in Java. Venkat talked about ‘eager’ versus ‘lazy’ evaluations as well as postponing evaluations and how this means we can optimise for execution on demand.

We had some questions about debugging streams as well which both Venkat and Mala Gupta gave us tips on. Mala also gave us a quick overview of how we can debug streams using IntelliJ.

In summary, this live coding demo and walk through is a must-watch. As someone who is returning to Java, and missed Java 8 entirely, I can glimpse just how powerful this new functionality is for Java developers.

Presentation from Venkat
http://agiledeveloper.com/presentations/lets_get_lazy.zip

Further resources
http://agiledeveloper.com/downloads.html

Debugging in IntelliJ IDEA

Did debugging #Java #Streams ever sound fun to you? If not, you haven’t explored it with the #Debugger in #IntelliJIDEA.#IntelliJTopShortcut pic.twitter.com/0K007sffyy

— JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA (@intellijidea) September 1, 2020

What our audience thought of Venkat’s presentation

Venkat Subramaniam is fun to watch. #JBTechDayforJava #JetBrainsLovesJava pic.twitter.com/dTLFPJWyIK

— frosch95 (@frosch95) July 10, 2020

@venkat_s thank you for the brilliant session as always. It was lovely listening to your energetic, enthusiastic and enlightening session on “being lazy” at #JBTechDayforJava #JetBrainsLovesJava ! Completely hooked on to the session and you have a magic wand :)

— Raghavan @ Saravanan (@itsraghz) July 10, 2020

Thanks for the awesome learning experience. Can you please tell us about how you use the editor for coding and debugging? And are there any windows equivalent for textmate?

— Abhijit Thorat (@thorat_1991) July 10, 2020

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