The Bottleneck Law Explained

Okay, so what actually stops a service from having infinite throughput?

You know, why can't a website just handle every single person on Earth at the same

time? Well, the answer is a really simple but incredibly powerful

concept. It's called the bottleneck law, and all it says is that a system

is only as fast as its slowest part. Think about it like a highway. It doesn't matter

if you have eight lanes of open road if, up ahead, it narrows down

to one single lane because of construction. The entire flow of traffic is dictated by that one narrow

point. Let's build a quick example to see what I mean. Imagine a request