Is there no ordering for incoming requests that would just slow a server down instead of breaking? What actually breaks?

  • JRaccoon@discuss.tchncs.de
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    17 hours ago

    Slowing down enough is the same thing than being unavailable. Imagine someone is sending you 1000 text messages per minute from different numbers all over the world. Your phone handles it fine but you have to manually read every single message to check if it’s spam or something important. By the time you reach that one real message where your crush asked if you wanna hang out, it’s way too late and they already asked someone else.