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Re:Queues Don't Fix Overload by cheald on Wednesday November 19, 2014 @04:39PM (#8632773)
It seems like you're really talking more about the danger of unbounded queues (and the virtue of bounded queues). A synchronous process is effectively just a bounded queue with a maximum capacity of 1.
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Re:Queues Don't Fix Overload by mononcqc on Wednesday November 19, 2014 @04:47PM (#8632822)
Yes, that's accurate. The loss of end-to-end principles when people use queues in a fire-and-forget manner is something I also decry.
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