advancedPerformance Optimization
What's the telltale symptom that distinguishes connection-pool exhaustion from other performance problems?
Everything is fast under light traffic, then intermittently and unpredictably slow specifically once concurrent requests exceed the pool size, because extra requests simply wait for a connection to free up rather than failing outright — unlike N+1 queries or missing indexes, which are consistently slow regardless of concurrency.
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