Threading stories: about robust thread pools

Another blog of my threading series. This time it’s about thread pools, robust thread pool settings in particular. In Java…

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Spring Thread Pool Services

Thread Pools are very important to execute synchronous & asynchronous processes. This article shows how to develop and monitor Thread…

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Concurrency Pattern: Producer and Consumer

In my career spanning 15 years, the problem of Producer and Consumer is one that I have come across only…

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Using a ThreadPoolExecutor to Parallelize Independent Single-Threaded Tasks

The task execution framework, introduced in Java SE 5.0, is a giant leap forward to simplify the design and the…

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Beneficial CountDownLatch and tricky java deadlock

Have you ever used java.util.concurrent.CountDownLatch? It’s a very convenience class to achieve synchronization between two or more threads, where allows…

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Concurrency optimization – Reduce lock granularity

Performance is very important in high load multi-threaded applications. Developers must be aware of concurrency issues in order to achieve…

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Java Concurrency Tutorial – CountDownLatch

Some concurrency utilities in Java naturally get more attention than others just because they serve general purpose problems instead of…

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Java Concurrency Tutorial – Blocking Queues

As discussed in Part 3, the thread pools introduced in Java 1.5 provided core support that was quickly a favourite…

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Java Concurrency Tutorial – Callable, Future

One of the beautiful things about Java from its very first release was the ease with which we could write…

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