A little bit bias and opinionated... Tho limited, lambdas and streams were a paradigm shift so big that revamped the love for java into functional programming... Not just a set of features introduced in Java 8.

>little bit bias and opinionated Well, we are reading an individual's blog after all.

How about GNU parallel? https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/

wow! You just saved the future me thousands of hours.

I hope you don’t mind the citation nags ;)

This video IMO is the best introduction to Clojure