Abstract: The Java programming language, in its long-term support version 21 (released in September 2023), introduced Java virtual threads (prior to version 21, this was a prototype solution). While ...

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.

Java is not the language it used to be, and that is mostly a good thing. Here are eleven ways Java is evolving to meet the challenges of the future. Is Java ancient yet? The kind of programming ...

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 ...

As if Java wasn't already functional enough, here comes news that it's now able to scale out software even faster and more efficiently than previously. After all, Java – now 28 years old – is being ...

ForkJoinPool is a powerful Java class used for processing computationally intensive tasks. It works by breaking down tasks into smaller subtasks and then executing them in parallel. This thread pool ...

The latest update to Java on Visual Studio Code improves the debugging experience thanks to support for the newly released Java 19. "Java 19 brings the first preview of virtual threads to the Java ...

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