InfoWorld

Java 101: Understanding Java threads, Part 3: Thread scheduling and wait/notify

This month, I continue my four-part introduction to Java threads by focusing on thread scheduling, the wait/notify mechanism, and thread interruption. You’ll investigate how either a JVM or an ...
InfoWorld

Java 101: Understanding Java threads, Part 1: Introducing threads and runnables

This article is the first in a four-part Java 101 series exploring Java threads. Although you might think threading in Java would be challenging to grasp, I intend to show you that threads are easy to ...
TheServerSide

A primer on Java 21 virtual threads with examples

On the day before Thanksgiving 2020, the Amazon Kinesis data streaming service in AWS' main region US-East-1 went down for several hours. The company explained the outage in its subsequent failure ...
InfoQ

Virtual Threads: New Foundations for High-Scale Java Applications

Virtual threads are a lightweight implementation of Java threads, delivered as a preview feature in Java 19. Virtual threads dramatically reduce the effort of writing, maintaining, and observing ...
InfoQ

Java Virtual Threads: a Case Study

Virtual threads are an important advancement in Java concurrent programming, but they do not offer a clear advantage over Open Liberty’s existing autonomic thread pool for running typical cloud-native ...