This post is about the physical laws of backpressure in software systems, latency death spirals, and why unbounded queues are a bug. Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Peter Mbanugo (originally published on Peter’s blog). Peter will be speaking at P99 CONF 2026. His topic: Multi-Core Without the Trilemma: Escaping Async/Await, Mutexes, and GC. Register now — the conference is free and…
