With JDK 21, Java is entering a new era of efficiency and security, making it a compelling choice for enterprises building scalable, secure applications. The introduction of virtual threads and ...

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.

The Java team at Oracle is working to address two common cases in which a virtual thread parks or blocks and the underlying native thread is not released. Java’s virtual threads, introduced in JDK 21 ...

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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 ...

Abstract: Efficient thread synchronization primitives are crucial in modern computer systems for the performant execution of interdependent code segments. In Linux, the futex() syscall is used to ...

A few years ago I wrote a Soduko solver in Java. Works great, except I have to edit the source file to change the input because I could never get Swing to work like my mental model said it should. Cut ...

Java 21 introduces Virtual Threads as an official feature. Virtual Threads run on a limited number of Carrier Threads. "synchronized" pins a Virtual Thread to a Carrier Thread. This reduces the ...