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 ...

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Modern operating systems can support extraordinarily large volumes of users, but run into limitations with threads to support them due to CPU and memory constraints. Java historically has dealt with ...

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 ...

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...

Four key concepts are essential for understanding Clojure’s functional programming paradigm. Here’s how to apply what you ...

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Hewing to an every-six-month release schedule it has maintained for more than five years, Oracle Corp. today announced the availability of Java 21 and designated it as a candidate for long-term ...

This month’s Java 101 concludes the thread series by focusing on thread groups, volatility, thread-local variables, timers, and the ThreadDeath class. Java requires every thread and every thread group ...

I would like to have some JNI code malloc a block of memory and pass it back to my Java code (in the form of a jlong), so that future calls to other JNI functions can pass this pointer along for the ...