Chandan Singh

Articles: 4

Joined: Jan 08, 2019

Chandan is a passionate software engineer with extensive experience in designing and developing Java applications. In free time, he likes to read fiction and write about his experiences.

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Concurrency in Java: The synchronized Keyword

This is the second article in the series of articles on Concurrency in Java. In the previous article, we learnt about the Executor pool and various categories of Executors in Java. In this article, we will learn what the synchronized keyword is and how we can use that in a...

Chandan Singh

Jun 20, 2019·11 min read

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Concurrency in Java: The Executor Framework

With the increase in the number of the cores available in the processors nowadays, coupled with the ever increasing need to achieve more throughput, multi-threading APIs are getting quite popular. Java provides its own multi-threading framework called the Executor Framework. What is the Executor Framework? The Executor Framework contains a...

Chandan Singh

Apr 29, 2019·13 min read

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Search Algorithms in Java

Searching is one of the most common actions performed in regular business applications. This involves fetching some data stored in data structures like Arrays, List, Map, etc. More often than not, this search operation determines the responsiveness of the application for the end-user. In this article, let's take a look...

Chandan Singh

Mar 08, 2019·38 min read

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An Introduction to Apache Spark with Java

Apache Spark is an in-memory distributed data processing engine that is used for processing and analytics of large data-sets. Spark presents a simple interface for the user to perform distributed computing on the entire cluster. Spark does not have its own file systems, so it has to depend on the...

Chandan Singh

Feb 01, 2019·9 min read