JDK 24 removed the monitor-related carrier-thread pinning that stalled Netflix and similar teams on Java 21. What has replaced it on JDK 25 LTS is downstream-resource saturation: The bottleneck moved and now demands explicit bounding in application code. This article maps the failure modes that surface after virtual-thread adoption and gives a practical sequence backed by a public benchmark.
By Sandeep Bharadwaj
InfoQ – Java
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