diff --git a/backend/src/app/main.clj b/backend/src/app/main.clj
index b8464c39f..cd3a547f3 100644
--- a/backend/src/app/main.clj
+++ b/backend/src/app/main.clj
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 
    ;; Default thread pool for IO operations
    [::default :app.worker/executor]
-   {:parallelism (cf/get :default-executor-parallelism 120)
+   {:parallelism (cf/get :default-executor-parallelism 60)
     :prefix :default}
 
    ;; Constrained thread pool. Should only be used from high demand
@@ -57,7 +57,6 @@
    :app.migrations/all
    {:main (ig/ref :app.migrations/migrations)}
 
-
    :app.msgbus/msgbus
    {:backend   (cf/get :msgbus-backend :redis)
     :redis-uri (cf/get :redis-uri)}