thread-pool

Part 1 of Percona's deep dive explains thread pooling in Percona Server for MySQL and community MySQL Server, covering how thread groups, round-robin connection assignment, and priority queues work, with configuration sweeps and benchmark results to follow in Part 2.

This article from The Old New Thing explains that Windows thread pools are optimized for throughput, not latency, and provides solutions for low-latency scheduling, such as creating a custom thread pool or using a dedicated worker thread, with code examples in C++ and C#.