This is perhaps a point one cannot get to theoretically just sort of thinking about. This realization comes after observing the effects in practice. It is interesting to observe distributed systems, especially the ones that rely on asynchronous messages, thing go wrong and queues start filling up. Or even weirder machines start to synchronize for some reason. Like the size of the queues will oscillate in resonance of some sorts.
One way out is to reduce asynchronicity but that comes with serious performance penalties.
This is perhaps a point one cannot get to theoretically just sort of thinking about. This realization comes after observing the effects in practice. It is interesting to observe distributed systems, especially the ones that rely on asynchronous messages, thing go wrong and queues start filling up. Or even weirder machines start to synchronize for some reason. Like the size of the queues will oscillate in resonance of some sorts.
One way out is to reduce asynchronicity but that comes with serious performance penalties.