A Lazy Developers Introduction to Java Concurrency Executors

I would make a fool out of myself if I tell you that util.concurrent APIs kicks cheetah’s ass when the…

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Log4j Thread Deadlock – A Case Study

This case study describes the complete root cause analysis and resolution of an Apache Log4j thread race problem affecting a…

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Does Immutability really means Thread Safety?

I have often read articles telling “If an object is immutable, it is thread safe”. Actually, I have never found…

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A Generic and Concurrent Object Pool

In this post we will take a look at how we can create an object pool in Java. In recent…

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Project Lambda: To Multicore and Beyond

The presentation “Project Lambda: To Multicore and Beyond” (Session 27400 and not to be confused with Brian Goetz’s presentation of…

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What makes parallel programming hard?

Multi-cores are here, and they are here to stay. Industry trends show that each individual core is likely to become…

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Java Executor Service Types

ExecutorService feature was come with Java 5. It extends Executor interface and provides thread pool feature to execute asynchronous short…

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Java Concurrency – CyclicBarrier Example

CyclicBarrier in Java is a synchronizer introduced in JDK 5 on java.util.Concurrent package along with other concurrent utility like Counting…

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Native vs Green threads

Native vs Green threads  Understanding a multi-threaded program have always been a wild goose chase for many programmers. There are…

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