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We are all well aware of all the fancy new features that JDK 8 brought to us and probably it's hard to find a Java developer that doesn't know what Java Streams, Lambdas or CompletableFutures are. So all these nice features came a few years back with JDK 8, but what happened a bit earlier... Continue Reading →
I'm aware that for many of you these two concepts probably mean the same or maybe you'd struggle to explain the differences between them; however, they're actually two very different concepts and this is quite important to understand the way in which we process data nowadays. In both cases we try to solve a problem... Continue Reading →
After having had an introduction to the new concurrency paradigm in Java in my previous article "A new concurrency model in Java", I've considered that it'd be beneficial to show a more realistic and practical example with CompletableFuture. So what we're going to do is to implement a component responsible for fetching posts from different... Continue Reading →
Things have changed considerably in the last few years in terms of how we write code in concurrent models. In the past we always had a tendency to share state and use complex concurrency mechanisms to synchronise the threads to allow them a fair use of the resources in our application, those were the times when... Continue Reading →
