ABSTRACT: Microservices have revolutionized traditional software architecture. While monolithic designs continue to be common, particularly in legacy applications, there is a growing trend towards the ...

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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.

Your browser does not support the audio element. Java’s Collection framework is one of the foundational components of the Java platform. Collections in Java ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. All the intricacies of a multi-threaded environment arise from sharing objects across threads. As discussed here ...

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 ...

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 ...

In this article we discuss virtual threads that were first introduced in OpenJDK 19, and are now in a second preview in OpenJDK 20. To better understand virtual threads, it is best to draw a ...