Spring Boot WebClient Deep Dive: Connection Pooling, Retries, Timeouts & Production Patterns
A comprehensive guide to replacing RestTemplate with Spring WebClient for high-concurrency HTTP calls, covering connection pool isolation per downstream, three-layer timeout strategy, retry-with-backoff filtering, Resilience4j circuit breaker integration, ExchangeFilterFunction for logging/auth/tracing, and memory-safe streaming with backpressure.
