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500 outbound HTTP calls per second: RestTemplate or WebClient, and what breaks with the other?
Tests whether you pick WebClient -- RestTemplate is blocking and synchronous, so at 500 calls/sec each held thread ties up a pool slot until the downstream responds, exhausting the thread pool; WebClient's non-blocking, event-loop model handles that concurrency on a handful of threads.
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