On the day before Thanksgiving 2020, the Amazon Kinesis data streaming service in AWS' main region US-East-1 went down for several hours. The company explained the outage in its subsequent failure ...

Virtual threads are a lightweight implementation of Java threads, delivered as a preview feature in Java 19. Virtual threads dramatically reduce the effort of writing, maintaining, and observing ...

ForkJoinPool is a powerful Java class used for processing computationally intensive tasks. It works by breaking down tasks into smaller subtasks and then executing them in parallel. This thread pool ...

Virtual threads, revealed in Java's Project Loom and generally available with the Java 21 LTS, promise unparalleled scalability, simplified asynchronous coding and more efficient resource utilization.

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Loom is a newer project in the Java and JVM ecosystem. Hosted by OpenJDK, the Loom project addresses limitations in the traditional Java concurrency model. In particular, it offers a lighter ...

The simple HTTP servers in the previous sections raise an interesting issue: while functional, they were not very useful because they only talked to one client at a time. That's not really the true ...