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.NET thread pool behavior, starvation, blocking calls, and runtime throughput.
Practice items tagged with Thread Pool.
Clarify the common misconception that await starts work on a new thread, and explain what actually happens for I/O-bound operations.
Sets concurrency from the constrained resource and verifies throughput, latency, and downstream safety instead of maximizing active work.
Decide how to handle CPU-heavy work in an API without damaging request throughput or making the system unreliable.
Investigate a production API slowdown caused by blocking async calls, thread-pool pressure, and dependency waits.
Proves parallel speedup against a sequential baseline while accounting for overhead, saturation, tail latency, resource contention, and downstream impact.
Chooses a parallel API based on whether the workload is a data query or an imperative loop and keeps CPU work pure, bounded, and measurable.