Fun fact: JDBC was one of the (if not the most important) blocking APIs that people tried to convert or redesign / reimplement as async, and failed miserably.

Fun fact: JDBC was one of the (if not the most important) blocking APIs that people tried to convert or redesign / reimplement as async, and failed miserably. Now, with the advent of virtual threads this should no longer be a problem! JDBC can block all day long, and your app will still scale without a problem.