Queues Don't Fix Overload (2014)

“My bad opinions” blog notes about 2014/11/19 Queues Don't Fix Overload OK, queues. People misuse queues all the time. The most egregious case being to fix issues with slow apps, and consequently, with overload. But to say why, I'll need to take bits of talks and texts I have around the place, and content that I have written in more details about in Erlang in Anger. To oversimplify things, most of the projects I end up working on can be visualized as a very large bathroom sink. User and dat