It’s really interesting how factorio problems are pretty much the same as multiprocessing/distributed systems problems. It just shows how universal and fundamen

It’s really interesting how factorio problems are pretty much the same as multiprocessing/distributed systems problems. It just shows how universal and fundamental the idea of “work” and “workers” are. An engineer on my old team came up with a credit system to solve this problem, the receiver issues credits to the sender, which only sends when there is a credit available - this ends up with the same better failure mode that the article discovers and allows you to overlap communication with work.