The Mutex Club: Building Custom Locks in Java
Custom Locks in Java: The DIY Project That Bites Back Ever felt the urge to build your own lock in Java? Maybe you skimmed a Baeldung article,…
The Mutex Club: Fine-Grained Locking vs Coarse-Grained Locking
The Mutex Club: Lock and Load: Coarse vs. Fine-Grained Locking for the Concurrency-Curious ## Key Insights ### Coarse-Grained Locking Imagine…
The Mutex Club: Mastering Atomic Variables and CAS
Key Insights Indivisible Moves in a World Full of Thread Races What do Java’s AtomicInteger, modern databases, and AI workflow tools like n8n…
The Mutex Club: Choosing the Right Thread-safe Collection
Concurrency isn’t a wild west—it’s herding caffeinated kittens across multiple threads. ## Key Insights # Thread-safe Collections: Built-in…
The Mutex Club: Spinlocks and Busy Waiting: The Hidden Cost
Key Insights # Busy Waiting 101 Think of a thread as a chef constantly checking the oven window—without ever taking a coffee break. That’s…
The Mutex Club: Monitors, Locks, and Conditions Explained
Hook: When Threads Turn Into Divas Picture this—your codebase is a five-star kitchen, and threads are over-caffeinated sous-chefs all vying…
The Mutex Club: StampedLock: A Modern Locking Mechanism
StampedLock: Read Fast, Validate Faster # The Big Idea StampedLock is Java 8’s answer to the read-heavy concurrency problem: grab a numeric…
The Mutex Club: Why ReentrantLock Sometimes Beats synchronized
Java Lock Showdown: synchronized vs. ReentrantLock When multiple threads race to update a shared resource (think: orchestrating n8n workflows…
The Mutex Club: Optimizing Reads with ReadWriteLock
Key Insights Imagine your application as a busy airport terminal. ReentrantReadWriteLock lays out two lanes: – Read Lane (readLock):…