[ec109685]

Why does the author say throughput tanks in the their first convoy example? Yes requests are being queued (delayed) but the server is still doing the same amount of work per “snap”. It’s not really a traffic shockwave, but instead more like adding cars to the beginning of the road.

[DylanSp]

Yeah, that part confused me too; the latency goes up, but the throughput stays the same. It looks like it's just a bad example, because the later example under "Forming a Lock Convoy" shows better understanding of the problem's dynamics. A better initial example would be fast food or retail workers serving a single queue of customers.