Abstract: Busy-wait synchronization is often used for latency-critical applications to ensure low latency. Unfortunately, its performance bugs due to thread contention may lead to request failures or ...

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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I recently tackled the classic Producer-Consumer problem using Java and multithreading. This problem is a fundamental example in concurrent programming, showcasing how producers and consumers can work ...

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 ...

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 ...