Reactive Streams · interview question
Why do teams use WebFlux over traditional Spring MVC in a high-concurrency environment in production code?
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Answer and explanation
Correct answer
A. Non-blocking I/O allows handling more requests with fewer threads.
Why
WebFlux uses non-blocking I/O, which means it can handle more requests concurrently without tying up a dedicated thread for each request, unlike the traditional thread-per-request model in Spring MVC.
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