Thread Wars: Episode 1 – The Thread Menace
Before we could dream of scaling, we had to survive blocking.
Jul 22, 20257 min read10

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A deep dive into Java concurrency—from the pain of platform threads to the rise of virtual threads. No fluff, just real-world tradeoffs, reactive detours, and how virtual threads unlock scalable, readable, modern backend code.
Before we could dream of scaling, we had to survive blocking.

What if millions of threads was the starting point, not the limit?

We finally got our threads back. Now let’s not burn the world down with them.
