AskTimeoutException in Akka's ask pattern: who cancels the actor's in-flight work?
The ask pattern ( Patterns.ask in classic Akka, or the ask methods on typed actors) fails the returned future with AskTimeoutException when no reply arrives within the configured timeout. That failure describes only the waiting side. The target actor is not interrupted, and any work it already started — a long computation, a blocking call, a downstream reque
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