As someone who has never built a system that had to account for serious backpressure, I am 100% sure it will bite me in the ass in the near future, no matter how seriously I try to control for it. This definitely feels like one of those concepts you pay a tuition in pain for.
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The fun part is that each of the hundreds of FPGAs which read out the detector and network components and then the processing farm nodes and disk servers are potential backpressure points. Hence my comment about monitoring so you know exactly where it's happening...
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Amazing it works at all really...
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