Multithreading & Concurrency

Multithreading & Concurrency

Troubleshooting Deadlock in Java

Upasana | August 11, 2020 | 4 min read | 2 views

In this post we will describe what deadlock is, how to troubleshoot it and how to reproduce it using Java language

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Custom Thread pool implementation in Java

Upasana | July 25, 2020 | 3 min read | 4,666 views

thread pool executor requires a Queue for holding tasks and a collection of Worker Threads that will pick up tasks from the work queue start running them.

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Producer Consumer Problem using Blocking Queue in Java

Upasana | August 31, 2019 | 3 min read | 2,024 views | Multithreading and Concurrency

A producer consumer problem is a typical example of multi-thread synchronization problem where some shared resource (a work queue, blockingqueue) is used by two types of threads - Producer & Consumer

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What is AtomicInteger class and how it works internally

Upasana | August 03, 2019 | 2 min read | 963 views | Multithreading and Concurrency

AtomicInteger class was added in Java 5 that utilizes non-blocking concurrency for thread-safety, providing better throughput in highly concurrent environments.

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Difference between Implementing Runnable and Extending Thread

Upasana | July 30, 2019 | 3 min read | 911 views

Implementing Runnable and giving it to a thread is form of composition while Extending Thread is a form of inheritance. Since we are not really specializing Thread's behaviour in this case, Implementing Runnable will make more sense.

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What do you understand by Java Memory Model?

Upasana | May 19, 2019 | 2 min read | 698 views | Multithreading and Concurrency

Java Memory Model defines the legal interaction of threads with the memory in a real computer system. It determines when a Thread can reliably see writes to variables made by other threads.

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Design an Immutable class that has an java.util.Date member

Upasana | May 19, 2019 | 1 min read | 2,273 views | Multithreading and Concurrency

As we know that java.util.Date is not immutable, we need to make a defensive copy of java.util.Date field while returning a reference to this instance variable.

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What is Double Checked Locking Problem in Multi-Threading?

Upasana | May 05, 2019 | 4 min read | 229 views

This article is about Java Memory Model and Double Checked Locking Problem for Singleton creation in Multi-Threading

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How will you implement your custom threadsafe Semaphore in Java

Upasana | May 05, 2019 | 2 min read | 837 views

We can implement a custom semaphore using `ReentrantLock` and `Condition` classes provided by Java. However this implementation is just for illustration purpose and not for production use.

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How will you increment each element of an Integer array, using parallel operation

Upasana | April 23, 2019 | 2 min read | 347 views

Java 7 `ForkJoinPool`, Java 8 `Arrays.parallelSetAll` can be used for performing parallel operations on an integer array.

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