When first teaching you concurrency in Java, most courses focus on the more "shiny" parts of it such as how to start several threads & parallelize a task so that you achieve 10x performance. However, most fail to teach the less glamorous but necessary part of writing thread-safe code.

That is like someone teaching you how to drive your new Porsche by skyrocketing your way up to 200 km/h while skipping the mundane but important lesson of how to drive carefully. This talk aims to bridge that gap and show you the less shiny, but much needed fundamentals.