For another look at benchmarking parallel streams, see “ From Imperative Programming to Fork/Join to Parallel Streams in Java 8 ” by Raoul-Gabriel Urma and Mario Fusco (InfoQ, February 2014).

Benchmarking and comparing Java 8 functional-style programming with the imperative-style can be tricky at times. Takipi blogs' recent posting shows us how.

In-memory data grid specialist Hazelcast launched a new distributed processing engine for data streams, targeting 'the intersect of Big Data programmers and Java programmers.' ...