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Multithreaded programs often function erratically or produce erroneous values due to the lack of thread synchronization. Synchronization is the act of serializing (or ordering one at a time) thread ...

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 ...

The thread gate pattern is an effective tool for controlling thread concurrency, but many developers are unfamiliar with it. Just as a traffic light can regulate the behavior of automobiles at an ...

I would like to have some JNI code malloc a block of memory and pass it back to my Java code (in the form of a jlong), so that future calls to other JNI functions can pass this pointer along for the ...

Ok well I'm trying to write a network blackjack for school (More of a fun project im going to get credit for, not an assignment)<BR><BR><BR>So I downloaded a Java ...

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