Learn Groovy sleep(), Thread.sleep(), timing with nanoTime, benchmarking, and timeout patterns with 14 practical examples. Tested on Groovy 5.x. “Timing is everything – in comedy, in cooking, and especially in programming.” Rob Pike, Notes on Programming in C Last Updated: March 2026 | Tested on: Groovy 5.x, Java 17+ | Difficulty: Beginner to Intermediate | Reading Time: 17 minutes Polling a remote service, rate-limiting API calls, benchmarking a database query – sooner or later you need to pause execution or ... Read More