intermediateWebClient: The Reactive HTTP Client
When does WebClient's non-blocking model actually matter versus OpenFeign's simplicity?
At high concurrency, where a thread-per-call blocking model would need thousands of threads just to stay idle waiting on network I/O; at typical low-to-moderate concurrency, the thread cost is invisible and OpenFeign's simpler, sequential code usually wins on readability.
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