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System capacity isn't always limited by resources within your control e.g. seats going on sale for an enormously popular concert, you're immediately throttled d
by inopinatus 10y ago
System capacity isn't always limited by resources within your control e.g. seats going on sale for an enormously popular concert, you're immediately throttled down to the sales abandonment rate. Everyone else needs to enter a queue.
More broadly, it's super easy to find yourself in a situation where throughout is constrained by an external resource. Especially common in any business that has partners (i.e. most of us) or has some kind of fulfilment to do.
- user5994461 10y agoWell. The concert reseller still has to serve all the clients. It may display that there are "no more tickets for this concert [at the moment]" but it shouldn't display a 503 error to half of the users and it shouldn't overload the external-ticket-reservation-system either. That makes an interesting problem where some systems will have to handle queueing/buffering/waiting/erroring nicely for each other =)