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 ...

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.

The Java team at Oracle is working to address two common cases in which a virtual thread parks or blocks and the underlying native thread is not released. Java’s virtual threads, introduced in JDK 21 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In this article we discuss virtual threads that were first introduced in OpenJDK 19, and are now in a second preview in OpenJDK 20. To better understand virtual threads, it is best to draw a ...

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