expertResilience (Expert Round)

Explain the Bulkhead pattern's two implementations — thread pool isolation vs semaphore isolation. What's the tradeoff?

Tests whether you know thread pool isolation gives stronger isolation at higher resource cost than semaphore-based limiting.

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