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Thread synchronization in Grails application using Hazelcast

Recently, I have been looking for a way to implement thread synchronization in a Grails application which is hosted on several nodes on Rackspace. And while it's rather easy to synchronize threads within a single servlet container, it might be difficult to do it when the same data is simultaneously updated from separate server nodes. This post shows how this task can be solved with Hazelcast.

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Escaping Deadlocks

Concurrent programs is not a novelty today, almost every modern application executes in multiple threads. But as concurrency brought us better resource utilization and throughput, it also introduced a number of issues nonexistent in serial execution. One of them is deadlocks. A deadlock is a situation where in two or more competing actions are each waiting for the other to finish, and thus neither ever does.