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A microservice has slow DB calls that hurt the overall flow. How do you stabilize it while you investigate the bottleneck?

Tests whether you'd add a timeout and bulkhead immediately to stop the slow calls from exhausting the whole service's thread pool, buying time to investigate the query/index/connection-pool issue without the symptom cascading further.

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