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by evidencetamper 427 days ago
The adverse effect is higher latency, as the execution gets delayed due to throttling.

Parent probably didn't care about latency.

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It’s a data pipeline that polls periodically. Average latency matters a lot less than lower variance of latency.

Even when I distribute offsets on polling, I would get these seesaws where enough fights over resources.