This post and accompanying code graciously contributed by: Huy Huynh Sr. Solutions Architect Magnus Bjorkman Solutions Architect Java is a popular language used by many enterprises today. To simplify and accelerate Java application development, many compa... (more…)

As an engineer for the U.S. Digital Service, Marianne Bellotti has encountered vintage mainframes that are still being used in production — sometimes even powering web apps. Last month she entertained a San Francisco audience with tales about some of ...

BigDecimal is an immutable data type. So every method of this class should be thread safe. But this not the case for the method toString. Calling it from multiple threads leads to strange results. (more…)

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The Java volatile keyword guarantees variable visibility across threads, meaning reads and writes are visible across threads. (more…)