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Reduce parallelism. Increase throughput.
Sounds backwards, but past a certain point, each additional in-flight query can make all the others slower.
We recently observed this in a customer's Vitess database. How it happened, and the fix:
https://planetscale.com/blog/concurrency-vs-throughput-vitess-mysql
2026-08-07T15:43:24.564Z