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 ...

Abstract: A thread is a basic unit of program execution that can share a single address space with other threads - that is, they can read and write the same variables and data structures. Originally, ...

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 ...

This is a short guide covering the topic of Threads in Java. I intend to make a Portuguese version soon.

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. I don’t know anyone who likes investigating a Java heap dump. They can be massive — literally ...

BlockHound will transparently instrument the JVM classes and intercept blocking calls (e.g. IO) if they are performed from threads marked as "non-blocking operations only" (ie. threads implementing ...

The UK Met Office has won this year's Golden Bull prize for "gobbledegook". The Plain English Campaign bestowed the dubious honour on the UK's weather forecaster for its use of jargon. In its own ...