Lean, Not Backpressure (opens in new tab)

Lucas Costa has written a good article on how to build systems that can handle code-generating robots\. Unfortunately, when calling it *backpressure*, he used the wrong metaphor\.11 Which, to his credit, he seems aware of\. It’s just that he’s spent too much time using the wrong metaphor that it’d be silly to switch now\. Backpressure is about signaling to upstream processes that they running too fast and need to slow down\. Note that the suggestions presented by Costa are mostly about sign...