<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Coalescence</title><description>Rankings, technical studies, and notes.</description><link>https://coalescence.alejandro-alvarez.com/</link><item><title>What p99 latency hides during connection pool saturation</title><link>https://coalescence.alejandro-alvarez.com/articles/connection-pool-saturation/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://coalescence.alejandro-alvarez.com/articles/connection-pool-saturation/</guid><description>A saturated pool does not show up as slow queries. It shows up as fast queries with a long queue in front of them, and percentile latency measured at the wrong boundary will not see it at all.</description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>performance</category><category>databases</category><category>observability</category></item></channel></rss>