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After enabling parallel processing, throughput improves but the database starts failing. Why?
Tests whether you connect parallelism in the app to a proportional increase in concurrent DB connections/queries -- the app layer scaled, but the database's connection pool or query capacity didn't, so the bottleneck simply moved downstream instead of disappearing.
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