Dealing with Interruptions

I was just watching the VJUG interview with Heinz Kabutz which inspired me to write a post about Interruptions. By…

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Farewell to Asynchronous Code

Quasar is a library that adds true lightweight threads (fibers) to the JVM. These are very cheap and very fast…

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Shooting yourself in the foot with Random number generators

This is not going to be one of the posts explaining how a random number generator is not so random…

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CompletableFuture can’t be interrupted

I wrote a lot about InterruptedException and interrupting threads already. In short if you call Future.cancel() not inly given Future…

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Java Concurrency Tutorial – Locking: Explicit locks

1. Introduction In many cases, using implicit locking is enough. Other times, we will need more complex functionalities. In such…

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Java8 Multi-threading ForkJoinPool: Dealing with exceptions

One of the main motivations behind the introduction of Java8 lambdas was the ability to be able to use multicores…

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Fork/Join Framework vs. Parallel Streams vs. ExecutorService: The Ultimate Fork/Join Benchmark

How does the Fork/Join framework act under different configurations? Just like the upcoming episode of Star Wars, there has been…

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Improving lock performance in Java

Plumbr is the only solution that automatically detects the root causes of Java performance issues by interpreting application performance data.…

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Thread Magic Tricks: 5 Things You Never Knew You Can Do with Java Threads

What are some of the least known facts and use cases for Java threads? Some people like mountain climbing, others do…

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