Concurrency in Kafka is defined by how many partitions make up a topic. For a consumer group, there can be as many consumers as there are partitions, with each consumer being assigned one or more ...
Converting a single-threaded application to a many-threaded application is often times a tricky proposition. There is more to just the challenge of refactoring the code to work in a concurrent fashion. Tricky little unexpected details ...
Some highly concurrent work I recently did got me thinking about the various methods Java provides for synchronizing access to data. I decided to do some testing to see how they compare. The test code ...
Concurrent applications have multiple threads running simultaneously. Access to data shared by multiple threads requires synchronization which is often a source of fragile and hard to maintain code, hard to find bugs, and performance issues. You ...