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Synchronization Costs: The Hidden Performance Killer

When enterprise systems slow down, the culprit is often synchronization overhead — locks, semaphores, or poorly designed concurrency. I’ve encountered this repeatedly in data-intensive Java systems.

Evidence

A study on distributed systems found synchronization can consume up to 60% of total execution time under heavy load.

My experience

In multi-threaded Java servers, I’ve replaced coarse-grained locks with concurrent structures and asynchronous event handling — cutting wait times dramatically.

Enterprise takeaway

Efficient synchronization isn’t just technical detail; it directly reduces server load and cloud cost.

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