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All Java programs are compiled into class files that contain bytecodes, the machine language of the Java virtual machine. In this JavaWorld classic, Bill Venners goes under the hood of the JVM to ...

Hanging threads are a common challenge in the development of software that has to interface with proprietary devices using proprietary or standardized interfaces such as SNMP, Q3, or Telnet. This ...

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 ...

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Virtual threads, revealed in Java's Project Loom and generally available with the Java 21 LTS, promise unparalleled scalability, simplified asynchronous coding and more efficient resource utilization.

Overview: Cloud-native and microservices architectures are becoming even more central to modern applications, with Java and ...