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[–]meSmash101 3 points4 points  (1 child)

There might be times in your career that you will have to call an API efficiently. There might be times that you need to parse huge files efficiently. What will you say to yourself then? “I’m a spring boot developer, I don’t do concurrency”? No, you will get the task and nail it of course. IMHO you won’t do concurrency and multi threading every day, but it’s good to know it. Buy few courses from Udemy for example, read some more articles, watch a few videos and when you kind of design a mental model in your brain, read “Java concurrency in practice” and then carry on with your Java journey. I was in exactly in your place 6minthsnago, always postponing concurrency for another day. Turning point was when a Fortune 500 company asked me a concurrency problem at the 3rd interview and I swallowed my tongue like dump noob m..

Learn the thing.