Springhard

How does `@Async` work in Spring and what’s a common gotcha?

Answer

Spring runs the method on a separate executor via a proxy. A common gotcha is self-invocation (calling the method from the same class) which bypasses the proxy, so it won’t run async. Also remember to size the executor.

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