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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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