Libraries
Explore how to identify and manage blocking issues caused by third-party libraries in distributed systems. Understand blocked thread antipatterns, resource pool scrutiny, and the use of timeouts to prevent cascading failures. Develop strategies to protect request-handling threads and ensure system resilience against unpredictable library behavior.
Open source and vendor code libraries
Libraries are notorious sources of blocking threads, whether they are open-source packages or vendor code. Many libraries that work as service clients do their own resource pooling inside the library. When a problem occurs, these often make request threads block forever. Of course, these never allow you to configure their failure modes, like ...