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X-WR-CALNAME:Voxxed Days Zürich 2026
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SUMMARY:Reactive ❤️ Loom: A Forbidden Love Story
DESCRIPTION:For years\, the Java community has been told that Project Loom 
 would kill reactive programming — that blocking and async were destined 
 to be enemies. But what if that story was wrong?In this talk\, we’ll exp
 lore what happens when these two worlds actually fall in love.Drawing from
  real-world work inside the Quarkus\, Vert.x\, Netty\, and HotSpot teams\,
  we’ll see how a custom Loom scheduler built on top of Netty brings toge
 ther the performance of event-driven I/O and the simplicity of virtual-thr
 ead-friendly blocking APIs.This isn’t a theoretical “what if”: it’
 s a data-driven exploration born from experiments and collaborations betwe
 en IBM\, Oracle Labs\, Oracle and Apple engineering teams.You’ll see how
  this approach reshapes how we think about async\, concurrency\, and sched
 uling — and why some of the long-held assumptions about “reactive vs b
 locking” simply don’t hold up when measured scientifically.Along the w
 ay\, we’ll dissect:How the Loom scheduler and virtual threads work under
  the hood.What happens when you run them over a Netty corePerformance impl
 ications and trade-offs measured empirically.State of art of similar patte
 rns from other languages (c++\, go\, ...)Why developers should challenge i
 nherited dogmas and base design choices on data\, not folkloreThis talk is
  a technical love story\, but also a call to reason: Measure\, Don’t Gue
 ss.Because sometimes\, the forbidden relationships are the ones that can m
 ove the platform forward.\nSpeakers: Francesco Nigro\nTrack: Java
URL:https://vdz26.voxxeddays.ch/talk/reactive-loom-a-forbidden-love-story/
LOCATION:Room 8\nARENA Cinemas\, Sihlcity\nZürich\, Switzerland
CATEGORIES:Java
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