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Handling Connection Storm storms and Thread Pool
Updated May 4, 2026
Short answer
Scaling thousands of concurrent connections.
Deep explanation
The thread pool plugin groups connections and limits the number of active threads to prevent the CPU from spending too much time on context switching.
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