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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 ...

Modern operating systems can support extraordinarily large volumes of users, but run into limitations with threads to support them due to CPU and memory constraints. Java historically has dealt with ...

Virtual threads introduce an abstraction layer between operating-system processes and application-level concurrency. Said differently, virtual threads can be used to schedule tasks that the Java ...

Loom is a newer project in the Java and JVM ecosystem. Hosted by OpenJDK, the Loom project addresses limitations in the traditional Java concurrency model. In particular, it offers a lighter ...