intermediateOpenFeign: Declarative REST Clients
Why is an unconfigured Feign client (no timeout set) dangerous under real load?
It ties up the calling thread indefinitely if the downstream service is slow but not crashed — under real concurrent load, this exhausts the caller's own thread pool, turning one slow downstream dependency into a cascading outage of the caller too.
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