Callback hell is a known way to give any JavaScript developer nightmares. However, Java developers are not much better off since anything concurrency and multithreading related gives us cold sweats.

With Threads and Runnables being the very first (and often last) things we used in Java, these classes gave many of us impression of and appreciation for complexities of concurrency. As a result, many developers abandoned the idea of ever touching thread management in Java and focused on a single-threaded development.

Fear no more! The world of concurrency in Java has changed since JDK8 and continues getting better. In this talk, we discuss improvements around Concurrency API of JDK5 and the power of asynchronous programming of CompletableFutures post-JDK8. Our goal is to break out of the fear of concurrency in Java and to learn about a new, declarative way of thread programming.