Scaling Primitives
Queues & backpressure
Lesson 4 of 5
A queue decouples producers from consumers and absorbs bursts, but unbounded queues trade away latency and hide overload until it's catastrophic.
What you'll learn
- Explain async decoupling and at-least-once delivery as a trade
- Show why a bounded queue with backpressure beats an unbounded one
- Quantify the latency cost a queue adds in exchange for throughput
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