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I had a wonderful experience chatting with the folks at RapidMind. The company provides C/C++ programmers with a very clever tool to help them exploit the parallel processing capability of multiple ...

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.

Loom is a newer project in the Java and JVM ecosystem. Hosted by OpenJDK, the Loom project addresses limitations in the traditional Java concurrency model. In particular, it offers a lighter ...

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 ...