Akka: To ask, or not to ask?
There are times that Akka Actors need to contact some other Actor, get the response and then continue their processing.
It is debatable whether this is a good design or not. However, when designing Akka APIs to be used by different libraries/modules, it is a reality that someone may have to deal with - especially when many different teams collaborate with each other, so you don’t have access to others' code.
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