Starting a new notifications service. Team knows Spring MVC well. Is…

Kabir Singh

Full Stack Dev | Node.js, React, MongoDB | Travel-tech | Open to backend-heavy roles

Starting a new notifications service. Team knows Spring MVC well. Is there any reason to choose WebFlux now that we have virtual threads in Java 21?

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Rohan Malhotra5 Oct 2026
For a team that knows MVC: MVC + virtual threads. Reactive is great but the debugging and learning cost is real.
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Aarav Sharma5 Oct 2026
We moved two services from WebFlux back to MVC + Loom. Throughput was the same, stack traces became readable again 🙂
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Dhruv Joshi5 Oct 2026
Saving this thread, was about to ask the same thing.

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