# Sequential Bottleneck

> A portion of work that must run serially, capping the speedup that parallelism can achieve.

Record: `lex:sequential-bottleneck`
Kind: anti-pattern
Layer: [Performance Core](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/performance-core.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lex-sequential-bottleneck

## category

- [Scalability / Performance / Optimization](https://banes-lab.com/records/lex-category/scalability-performance-optimization.md)

## referenced-by

- [Parallelism](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/parallelism.md)