A CompletableFuture you never join swallows its exception in silence

An exception inside a stage completes the future exceptionally and stops there. No thread dies, nothing is logged, and the default uncaught-exception handler is never reached. Fire-and-forget async is fire-and-never-know.

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Published 2026-08-25