Things are probably going to get worse before they get better, and plausibly quite a bit worse, but in terms of positioning one's business over the medium term, I'd be spending a lot of time thinking "What changes to the status quo are going to be the new normal going forward?"
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The things that will start showing implausible amounts of strain at striking thresholds are much more important than Rails apps and the impact to their ability to deliver service to the standard SLA is much worse than "a request gets dropped on the floor."
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queues are dampers, when they fill up and they aren't damping anymore you get wild swings
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That's just queuing theory, you don't need Rails for that, to be clear.
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Sounds like there is a good story behind this rails gem of wisdom
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Per minute? What is going on in the DB!
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