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Introduced with the Java 17 release, pattern matching enhances the instanceof operator so Java developers can better check and object's type and extract its components, and more efficiently deal with ...

On the day before Thanksgiving 2020, the Amazon Kinesis data streaming service in AWS' main region US-East-1 went down for several hours. The company explained the outage in its subsequent failure ...

Learn about serialization in Java with our comprehensive tutorial. We provide examples to help you understand how serialization works and how to use it. Serialization is a fundamental concept in Java ...