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Why is holding a lock while making a network call dangerous?
Tests whether you know a slow or hung network call turns a short critical section into an unbounded one, blocking every other thread waiting on that lock for as long as the network call takes -- effectively letting an external dependency's latency become your application's lock contention.
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