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		squarecog on Jan 15, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Notes on Distributed Systems for Young Bloods How do you keep the message queue from unbounded growth?

jreichhold on Jan 16, 2013 [–]

Arrival rate and dequeue/processing time are the keys here. Unbounded queues are easy.. Just limit the queue size. Of course this isn't what the user of the service wants and leads to a very bad experience

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