Hazelcast – Serialization Hazelcast is ideally used in an environment where data/query are distributed across machines. This requires data to be serialized from our Java objects to a byte array which can be transferred over the network. Hazelcast supports various types of Serialization. However, let’s look at some commonly used ones, i.e., Java Serialization and […]
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Hazelcast – Data Structures java.util.concurrent package provides data structures such as AtomicLong, CountDownLatch, ConcurrentHashMap, etc. which are useful when you have more than one thread reading/writing data to the data structure. But to provide thread safety, all of these threads are expected to be on a single JVM/machine. There are two major benefits of distributing […]