Async Timeouts with CompletableFuture: Fixing Blocking Java Code the Right Way

1,000 threads. All of them blocked on future.get(). That's the production nightmare that forced a full rewrite — and the journey through reactive callbacks, exception swallowing pitfalls, and finally a clean within() utility that handles timeouts without giving up the async model.

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