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Why can an unbounded executor queue hide an overload problem until the application crashes?
Tests whether you know an unbounded queue never triggers rejection or backpressure -- tasks just keep piling up in memory, so the system looks fine until the queue itself exhausts the heap, far later than when it actually became overloaded.
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