With the latest Bedrock update, Mojang has officially removed support for VR and mixed reality devices for the game. With the latest Bedrock update, Mojang has officially removed support for VR and ...

Organisations using Java face a licence fee hike after Oracle’s introduction of subscription pricing for Java SE. Analyst Forrester has previously written that the move to what Oracle calls the Java ...

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 are a new and exciting feature of Java. They promise performance and compatibility but there are also subtle differences to ordinary threads and even pitfalls which you should be aware ...

The Java team at Oracle is working to address two common cases in which a virtual thread parks or blocks and the underlying native thread is not released. Java’s virtual threads, introduced in JDK 21 ...

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 ...

Java has a powerful new concurrency model, and it works with both traditional and virtual threads. Here's a first look at structured concurrency. Structured concurrency is a new way to use ...

In this article we discuss virtual threads that were first introduced in OpenJDK 19, and are now in a second preview in OpenJDK 20. To better understand virtual threads, it is best to draw a ...