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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Although jstack (Java Stack Trace) is a useful tool for learning more about a how a Java thread is behaving, VisualVM is an even easier method for obtaining the same type of information. It is easy to ...

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.

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 ...

Virtual threads are being proposed for Java, in an effort to dramatically reduce the effort required to write, maintain, and observe high-throughput concurrent applications. A draft JDK Enhancement ...

Erm. Well. There are a lot of possible answers to that. Some points:<BR><BR>1. Java is generally compiled to bytecode, which is then interpreted at run-time. (There are exceptions, and some ...

OK folks,<BR><BR>I've been scouring the Web looking for info on optimising the memory usage of Java and have come up with a few items of interest.<BR><BR>Can anyone shed any further light on a the ...