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A .NET 8 experiment comparing 100 Task.Delay calls with blocking Thread.Sleep tasks, explaining thread-pool limits, starvation, and why await scales better.
Learn why blocking on Task.Result or Task.Wait can cause deadlocks and thread-pool starvation in .NET applications, and how async/await avoids these hangs.
Learn how to diagnose and fix Thread Pool starvation in ASP.NET Core APIs using async/await, dotnet-counters, dotnet-trace, and runtime profiling.
Diagnose and fix ASP.NET Core API Thread Pool starvation. Learn to identify slow responses caused by blocked threads, not just slow databases.
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