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Hybrid Cloud Data at Uber: How Engineers Solved Extreme-Scale Replication Challenges

Uber’s HiveSync team optimized Hadoop Distcp to handle multi-petabyte replication across hybrid cloud and on-premise data ...

Minecraft Java Edition is finally moving from OpenGL to multi-threaded Vulkan

Although Mojang has not provided a precise timeline for transitioning Minecraft to Vulkan, players and modders can begin testing the new renderer in Java Edition in ...
IEEE

Evaluating Memory Management and Garbage Collection Algorithms with Virtual Threads in High-Concurrency Java Applications

Abstract: Garbage collection (GC) is a critical memory management mechanism within the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) responsible for automating memory allocation and reclamation. Its performance affects ...
IEEE

HW-FUTEX: Hardware-Assisted Futex Syscall

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 ...