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Ten thousand threads holding a megabyte of stack each while asleep, against one event loop asking the kernel which sockets have data ready, and the rule that nothing in a handler may ever block

ConcurrencyDay 53Sep 24, 2026

One Thread, Ten Thousand Connections

system-design concurrency event-loop

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