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Blog post links, as promised:

  • The queueing shell game
  • A run-down on the “infinity customers at 100% utilization” thing
  • The latency/throughput tradeoff
  • Using Little’s Law to scale applications
  • Kanban Highway: the least popular Mario Kart course

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