Programming asynchronous applications is becoming increasingly important in the world of distributed system, for both enterprise applications and microservices. This task can be highly complex and hard depending on the API we use. Thanks to recent development in Java, we can make use of virtual threads.

Java was once a language that dragged along at snail's pace. Thankfully, that's no longer the case. In the recent years the pace of development has accelerated, both in language features and in the JDK improvements.

Should we use Spring, Quarkus, or Micronaut. Angular, React, or View. Dynamic, static, or mixed typing? Functional or... will this method give better performance? Each of us have been in what seems like an endless stream of such discussions and sometimes arguments. In this keynote, we will discuss some ways to get deeper understanding of solutions and how we can be effective in making these decisions, by learning from the practices of some of the most admirable artists, scientists, and architects of the world.