Java Streams API for data processing

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Java Streams provide a functional approach to processing collections with operations like filter, map, and reduce. I use stream() to create streams from collections and apply intermediate operations that are lazy and return new streams. Terminal operations like collect(), forEach(), and reduce() trigger execution. Method references and lambdas enable concise transformations. Collectors utility provides common reduction operations—toList, toSet, groupingBy, partitioningBy. Parallel streams with parallelStream() leverage multi-core processors. Streams are immutable and don't modify source collections. Optional handles potentially null results elegantly. Stream pipelines compose operations declaratively, improving readability and enabling compiler optimizations. This functional style reduces boilerplate and makes data transformations more expressive.