<@U5F0UDF35> You can also consider using something...

# coroutines

[elizarov]

@galex You can also consider using something like OkHttp library for your URL it is blocking inside, but it encapsulates all the thread-management under the hood in a nice async API that is easy to use with coroutines. See https://github.com/gildor/kotlin-coroutines-okhttp by @gildor for example