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Concurrency is not for the faint-hearted We all know concurrency programming is difficult to get it right. That’s why threading…

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Playing with Java 8 – Lambdas and Concurrency

So Java 8 was released a while back, with a ton of features and changes. All us Java zealots have…

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Clean Synchronization Using ReentrantLock and Lambdas

Recently I was reading an informative post about the differences between synchronized vs ReentrantLock by Javin Paul1. He emphasises on…

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Java 8 LongAdders: The Right Way To Manage Concurrent Counters

I just lOvE new toys, and Java 8 has a bunch of them. This time around I want to talk…

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Java 8 Friday Goodies: Lean Concurrency

At Data Geekery, we love Java. And as we’re really into jOOQ’s fluent API and query DSL, we’re absolutely thrilled…

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Using Java EE’s ManagedExecutorService to asynchronously execute transactions

One year has passed by since the Java EE 7 specification has been published. Now that Wildfly 8 Final has…

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Java: Handling a RuntimeException in a Runnable

At the end of last year I was playing around with running scheduled tasks to monitor a Neo4j cluster and…

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Hardware Transactional Memory in Java, or why synchronized will be cool again

Overview Hardware Transaction Memory has the potential to allow multiple threads to speculatively access the same data structure at the…

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Applying ForkJoin – from optimal to fast

JDK 7 is well into the hands of developers by now and most people have heard of ForkJoin, yet not…

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