[rewmie]

Thanks for sharing some of your insight onto the problem domain. Do you happen to have any reference for laymen like me to onboard onto the subject? It's an awfully interesting topic but when I stumbled upon it I tend to fall back to JIT learning and troubleshooting, which is far from the best position to be.

[AlotOfReading]

This is a class of problems known as scheduling. The Wikipedia page is a good place to start [0]. It focuses on task schedulers rather than message queues, but the same principles apply. For a deeper theoretical basis, Wiley has a good book [1]. Most undergrad curricula will have a module on this as well, so you can find info in most comp sci textbooks.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheduling_(computing)

[1] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/97811189844...

[jayunit]

The article from @jph (who commented it at the top level here) discussed a month ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37532439 might be helpful, too!