World Congress 2026 Europe • Jul 10, 2026 • Session details

Structured Concurrency in Practice: CoroutineScope vs StructuredTaskScope

Does Java's StructuredTaskScope handle blocking IO better than Kotlin coroutines? Compare both concurrency models directly in a practical Spring Boot demonstration.

Starting at 3:54 · Watch from the beginning

Structured Concurrency in Practice: CoroutineScope vs StructuredTaskScope thumbnail

Checking access…

Playback and chapters load privately for Free videos.

Matching moments

5:18 min

Executing parallel tasks concurrently with structured task scopes

Christian Woerz · LIVE

3:47 min

Approaches to non-blocking software before Project Loom

Jan Weinschenker

Jan Weinschenker · World Congress 2024

6:35 min

Managing thread lifecycles using structured task scopes

David Vlijmincx · LIVE

3:12 min

Solving thread blocking with reactive frameworks and Kotlin

Jan Weinschenker

Jan Weinschenker · World Congress 2024

3:29 min

Handling asynchronous operations with native Kotlin coroutines

Georg Dresler

Georg Dresler · World Congress 2026 Europe

1:27 min

Introduction to Loom and its impact on concurrency

Ivan Šarić

Ivan Šarić · Europe 2026 Virtual

More from World Congress 2026 Europe

Building the Nervous System of AI - Michael Kagan (NVIDIA) thumbnail

Building the Nervous System of AI - Michael Kagan (NVIDIA)

Michael Kagan +1

Five Things in Tech that Matter Now - WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2026 Closing Keynote thumbnail

Five Things in Tech that Matter Now - WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2026 Closing Keynote

Christian Heilmann · WeAreDevelopers

The Sound of Your Secrets: Teaching Your Model to Spy, So You Can Learn to Defend thumbnail

The Sound of Your Secrets: Teaching Your Model to Spy, So You Can Learn to Defend

David vonThenen · NetApp

Super scaling for the Super Bowl: How to survive 30 million users hitting your backend in 30 minutes thumbnail

Super scaling for the Super Bowl: How to survive 30 million users hitting your backend in 30 minutes

Irina Branovic · adjoe

Running Secure Life Science Research at Scale using Hybrid GPU HPC and Kubernetes 🧬 thumbnail

Running Secure Life Science Research at Scale using Hybrid GPU HPC and Kubernetes 🧬

Jeremy Murray · Stack8s

Angstfreude - AI and Corporate Culture - The Thrill and the Threat thumbnail

Angstfreude - AI and Corporate Culture - The Thrill and the Threat

Upcoming sessions on this topic

Starts in 11 days

Conference India 2026

November 25–26, 2026

Bengaluru, India

Get tickets All 108 sessions

When Caches Lie: Solving Transactional Integrity and Distributed Race Conditions in Spring Boot
Shuchita Prasad · JPMorgan

Thu 26 Nov · Stage 2
From Spring Boot to Spring AI: A Java Developer's Journey into Agentic Systems
Varsha Das · AWS

Thu 26 Nov · Room 7
Spring Boot Beyond the Defaults: A Practical Framework for Overriding Autoconfiguration
Pradeep Kumar · Classpath Consulting

Thu 26 Nov · Stage 3 - powered by GitHub

Related videos

Introduction and pitfalls of Java's new concurrency model thumbnail

Introduction and pitfalls of Java's new concurrency model

David Vlijmincx

LIVE · Sep 2023

Java's Project Loom & Co - the end for reactive programming? thumbnail

Java's Project Loom & Co - the end for reactive programming?

Jan Weinschenker · Holisticon AG

World Congress · 2024

Java 21: The Revolution of Virtual Threads - A Deep Dive thumbnail

Java 21: The Revolution of Virtual Threads - A Deep Dive

Christian Woerz

LIVE · Jan 2024

Beyond Loom: Practical Patterns for Virtual Threads, Structured Concurrency and Reactive Interop thumbnail

Beyond Loom: Practical Patterns for Virtual Threads, Structured Concurrency and Reactive Interop

Ivan Šarić · Path Variable

Europe Virtual · 2026

Side-by-Side: Reactive vs non-reactive Java thumbnail

Side-by-Side: Reactive vs non-reactive Java

Jan Weinschenker · Holisticon AG

World Congress · 2023

Route from Java to Kotlin thumbnail

Route from Java to Kotlin

Christian Woerz

LIVE · Sep 2022

Related articles

SH

Severine Hierso

The Concept of Concurrency & Multithreading: What Are They And How They Function

As the world around us moves ever more online, the need for software engineers is growing - seemingly by the hour. Whether by building firewalls that fend off the next big data breach, or developin...

over 4 years ago

The Concept of Concurrency & Multithreading: What Are They And How They Function

BB

Benedikt Bischof

Using Java 17 latest features in real world projects

Welcome to this issue of the WeAreDevelopers Live Talk series. This article recaps an interesting talk by Ron Veen who introduced the audience to some of the most interesting features that got adde...

about 4 years ago

Using Java 17 latest features in real world projects

LM

Luis Minvielle

Top 10 Java Libraries

Java has been around for so long, in part, because it has a large ecosystem. While all of Java's core components are exceptionally robust, the abundance of Java libraries is the one that stands out...

almost 3 years ago

Top 10 Java Libraries

MI

Michael Inden

Modern Java Switch Expressions

In this blog, I will cover some improvements of switch. The old syntax dates back to the early day of Java, and its handling is a bit cumbersome. Let's look at the newer, slightly modified syntax f...

over 5 years ago

Modern Java Switch Expressions

From learning to earning

Jobs that call for the skills explored in this talk.

Stackit - Cloud Foundry - Software Engineer

Barcelona, Spain

Kubernetes Code Review Cloud Foundry

Principal Software Engineer, Copilot Code Review

Beverly Hills, CA, United States

Expert Remote Ruby Golang Github

about 1 month ago •

Senior Software Developer Java (m/w/d)

Sopra Steria Custom Software Solutions GmbH

Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Expert €70k–95k Flexible Java Spring Boot Continuous Deployment

11 days ago •

Software Development Engineer 1

Bengaluru, India

Starter Hybrid · 3 days on-site Java Spring

about 2 months ago •

Senior Software Development Engineer

San Jose, United States

Expert $199k–278k Hybrid · 3 days on-site Java gRPC Kotlin

Principal Software Engineer, Copilot Code Review

San Francisco, CA, United States

Expert Ruby Golang Github