I am thinking of using a chain of Akka workers to model a workflow inside a DeferredResult based Spring MVC web application. Essentially the controller will return a DeferredResult and the actors in the chain will work to populate a CompletableFuture which feeds the DeferredResult when completed.
What I am not able to figure out is:
* Will Akka exert back-pressure if this setup takes on too much load.
* If so, how can I detect that this is happening?