Have you ever tried to implement a feature on your team application services and things did not turn out as planned? Well, that’s exactly what happened to me too! “ Virtual threads are lightweight…

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Exploring the performance differences between Java virtual threads and platform threads, the post highlights how virtual threads can enhance service performance by avoiding idle time during I/O operations. It covers enabling virtual threads in Spring Boot, building a test API for comparison, and performance comparisons using Apache HTTP server benchmarking. The author identifies pinning as the reason for unexpected slowdowns and concludes with strategies for overcoming limitations using MySQL Connector/J.

Why are my JAVA virtual threads slower than the platform threads?

Why are my Java virtual threads slower than the platform threads?

Let’s walk through virtual threads before I explain what’s happened to me