Helidon Níma has become the world’s first web framework which is by design based on Virtual threads – one of the major game changer in the industry. Virtual Threads, first in research Project Loom and now as a preview feature in JDK19+, dramatically change the resource usage in the JVM, allowing achieving performance comparing to reactive engines, but with fully blocking paradigm. In this talk I am going to tell you the story of Helidon Níma – what were the problems and what were the solutions, what tasks it is designed to work on, and why it has changed the world of web frameworks.