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erokar on Oct 9, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Java at Alibaba [pdf]

Web servers' performance benefit from concurrent programming models. Concurrent programming is certainly possible in Java, but Java/JVM is not particularly well suited for it compared to other languages/VMs, e.g. Erlang.

andonisus on Oct 9, 2017 [–]

The concurrency model you use is heavily dependent on the scale of your application. Java is just fine for the typical web server stack.

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