The Lance

Topic: General                                                                                                                                              Level: All In this post, we shall catch up on the multi-faceted technological updates that happened over the past week as well as a few that seized my attention, Java has some extraordinary libraries which blow your mind such as, 1. Using DelayQueue instead of BlockingQueue, offering to the queue after the delay lapse  2. DateTimeFormatter returning strings like 'in the morning' and 'in the afternoon  3. StampedLock instead of ReadWriteLock and optimistic ReentrantReadWriteLock  4. Concurrent Accumulators instead of AtomicXXX references for concurrent updates without locks  5. Hex format  6. BinarySearch in Arrays of sorted ordering returning found value else the nearest occurrence for insertion  7. BitSet instead of a boolean array to operate the bits for and, or, xor operations  8. Phaser instead of CountDownLatch to a