Fred Hébert personal blog
Queues Don't Fix Overload
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 .
- Points
- 205
- HN comments
- 244
- Submissions
- 3
- Cited by
- 8 commenters
Systems & PerformanceSoftware Engineering2014
On Hacker News
| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 19, 2014 | Queues Don't Fix Overload by craigkerstiens | 205 | 59 |
| Jan 18, 2024 | Queues don't fix overload (2014) by akbarnama | 193 | 153 |
| Jun 9, 2026 | Queues Don't Fix Overload (2014) by locknitpicker | 67 | 32 |
Cited in comments
Linked from 8 Hacker News comments by 8 different people, from Feb 2015 to Aug 2023.
Most recent:
- Jasper_ · Aug 8, 2023
- galaxyLogic · Mar 8, 2022
- macintux · Dec 1, 2021
- kqr · Nov 15, 2021
- owenmarshall · May 27, 2019
- practicingdev · Sep 3, 2016
