Abstract: The fundamental asynchronous thread (java.lang. Thread) in Java can be easily misused, due to the lack of deep understanding for garbage collection and thread interruption mechanism. For ...

Twitter alternatives — new and old — have found audiences willing to try out a newer social networks since Elon Musk took over the company in 2022. Mastodon, Bluesky, Spill and T2 are some of the ...

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 ...

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Abstract: Virtual threads are a new feature of the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) complementing the regular Java threads (called platform threads). Virtual threads promise a significant throughput ...

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 ...