Virtual Threads: Where the Magic Ends

📅 Date: June 4th, 2026, 7:30 pm

🎙️ Speaker: Aliaksandr Karnilovich – Senior Software Engineer, Expert Java Developer and Integration Team Tech Lead

🔐 About the event:
The event will be held in English and is part of the Java User Group series (https://dev.bg/groups/java/).

Agenda:

• What virtual threads actually solve: cheap concurrency for blocking work
• Where the magic ends: CPU-bound tasks, database bottlenecks, and storage limits
• Real-world examples of failure modes and trade-offs
• Demo: thread-per-task with platform threads vs virtual threads
• Demo: how virtual threads can amplify DB fan-out and increase latency
• Demo: real-time PnL snapshot, stale-price fallback, and why storage-bound systems still miss SLAs
• Practical guidelines for using virtual threads safely in production
• Q&A session

The event is free but requires pre-registration.

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About the speaker:
Aliaksandr Karnilovich is a Senior Software Engineer and Integration Team Tech Lead with about 15 years of experience in Java backend engineering, high-load production environments, and AI integration. He focuses on practical aspects of modern Java, sharing a production-focused perspective on virtual threads and architectural trade-offs.

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