Your Biggest Customer Might Be Your Biggest Bottleneck
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The article discusses how relying heavily on a single large customer can create bottlenecks in a system, and proposes using fair queueing as a solution, with commenters relating it to task scheduling and queue management principles.
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TLDR with the DMV example where someone shows up with paperwork for 100 vehicles is that this person's single vehicle paperwork is served and then they are sent back in line with remaining 99 vehicle paperworks.