Helidon Níma has become the world’s first web framework which is by design based on Virtual threads – one of the major game changer in the industry. Virtual Threads, first in research Project Loom and now as a preview feature in JDK19+, dramatically change the resource usage in the JVM, allowing achieving performance comparing to reactive engines, but with fully blocking paradigm. In this talk I am going to tell you the story of Helidon Níma – what were the problems and what were the solutions, what tasks it is designed to work on, and why it has changed the world of web frameworks.

Session Speakers

Dmitry Aleksandrov

Senior Principal Developer