Spring Boot & Microservices | Part 8 | Java Virtual Thread & Reactor | Truth about concurrency
00:00 Why reactor and virtual threads
00:36 Imperative blocking mental model
02:13 Concurrency problem: thread explosion
04:18 Reactive model: async notifications
07:49 Fintech case: 10K transactions
11:42 IO-bound vs CPU-bound workloads
17:56 Project Loom: virtual threads
20:58 Spring @Async with virtual threads
26:48 Reactor basics: Mono and pipeline
33:22 Backpressure: reactor’s big win
37:39 Map, flatMap, zip explained
46:30 Flux/WebFlux, takeaways, wrap