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Thread Pool Starvation — Why Node.js Blocks Even in Async Code

You wrote perfectly async Node.js code — no blocking I/O, no synchronous loops. Yet under load, responses stall and CPU pegs. The culprit is Node.js''s hidden libuv thread pool being exhausted by crypto, file system, and DNS operations. Here''s what''s really happening.

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