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A lack of knowledge about queueing theory and a dash of wishful thinking make this a common trap for most developers to believe that as long as you add bigger queues you can wiggle your way out of any scaling problem.

You can’t.

https://ferd.ca/queues-don-t-fix-overload.html

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