Lucian Carata

I'll clean up things and add concrete examples for each pull request. Most of this is motivated by simulating data processing pipelines and queuing where you need to then look...

Despite the name, this actually bumps the kotlin language version. I need to test this on jdk 17 before considering. The newer kotlin typically targets JDK 21, so I will...

The possible Kotlin version bump is covered in #5639

needs update in sync with koltinx.coroutines, which supports kotlin 2.0 from version 1.9.0. However, 1.9.0 is not released yet (1.9.0-RC out [here](https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.coroutines/releases/tag/1.9.0-RC))

@ramonpzg I would like to form a view on the upgrade path to GitBook & timelines. At the moment, if I want to write some more Core 2 docs, would...

> I will have the PR ready for review by sometime this week and would recommend waiting @ramonpzg It's not that urgent, I can wait for this to be merged....

Version update needs to be tested and done via the Makefile rather than a direct change

There is a bug where the expected number of model replicas does not update after change in the number of server replicas. Will fix that part first before merging

This PR will not be merged. It is used just to share in-progress code, and will be closed when the equivalent functionality has been implemented through other PRs.

Closing. Changes along the same lines are now covered in #5886 and #5930