Article: Virtual Threads After JDK 24: What Changed for Production Java

JDK 24 removed the monitor-related carrier-thread pinning that stalled Netflix and similar teams on Java 21. What has replaced it on JDK 25 LTS is downstream-resource saturation: The bottleneck moved and now demands explicit bounding in application code. This article maps the failure modes that surface after virtual-thread adoption and gives a practical sequence backed by a public benchmark. By Sandeep Bharadwaj