Written form to keep for later: https://rockthejvm.com/blog/208292/sync-async-blocking

Using the controllable Futures pattern: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72kurKY7fX8

This video is for programmers of all levels (although I write Scala, naturally). We discuss how some computations are synchronous and blocking, async and blocking, and how we could achieve async non-blocking computations with Akka actors.

Async and non-blocking is what you want. However, even that has its drawbacks. So at the end I show how you can also obtain meaningful values out of a non-blocking computation.

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