Devoxx 2012: Java 8 Lambda and Parallelism, Part 1

Overview Devoxx, the biggest vendor-independent Java conference in the world, took place in Atwerp, Belgium on 12 – 16 November.…

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Parallelization of a simple use case explained

Some time ago a friend of mine asked me about the possibilities of speeding up the following process: they are…

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Investigating Deadlocks – Part 5: Using Explicit Locking

In my last blog I looked at fixing my broken, deadlocking balance transfer sample code using both Java’s traditional synchronized keyword…

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Investigating Deadlocks – Part 4: Fixing the Code

In the last in this short series of blogs in which I’ve been talking about analysing deadlocks, I’m going to…

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Investigating Deadlocks – Part 3

In my previous two blogs in this series, part 1 and part 2, I’ve demonstrated how to create a piece…

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Java deadlock troubleshooting and resolution

One of the great things about JavaOne annual conferences is the presentation of several technical and troubleshooting labs presented by…

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Investigating Deadlocks – Part 2

One of the most important requirements when investigating deadlocks is actually having a deadlock to investigate. In my last blog I…

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Investigating Deadlocks – Part 1

I’m sure we’ve all been there: it’s late, you’re hungry, your server has hung or your application’s running at snail’s…

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Locking with a semaphore : An example

Concurrency is one aspect that brings along interesting challenges along with it. If not correctly handled, it brings about race…

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