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Database locking revisited
For me, it was hard to find a paper that would thoroughly explain to me how I can make database operations in my app thread-safe. Most of them focus on explaining @Transactional annotation and other framework mechanisms, but hardly ever elaborate on how it works in the database, or still believe that serializable transactions are executed sequentially (not true!). Here, I go into those details and explain on examples how you can leverage your database.
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Concurrency is hard and deciding how to manage threads can be extremely challenging, or even undoable, if the code is a mess. Thankfully, Java shares a useful API to create different kinds of thread pools, to address various use cases. In this article, I describe the API and show, on examples, how you can take advantage of it.
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