Virtual Thread Pinning: How a Silent JVM Bug Caps Your App's Throughput
Java's virtual threads, introduced via Project Loom, can silently revert to behaving like a bounded thread pool due to a phenomenon called 'pinning,' where a virtual thread cannot unmount from its…
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