Comment by jjjensen90

Yeah... Reading this, it smacked of a possible combination of poor tool choice and over-engineering (which I've been guilty of plenty). I built a video processing/workflow application in Scala with Akka a few years ago and debugging that was hard enough, eventually it was refactored to a simpler Kotlin/Spring application... Actor systems are great for certain use cases but you can really hurt the transparency of your app if you aren't careful. I can't imagine maintaining the OP's application at scale for this use case, but maybe they have someone smarter than me!