# Single Serial Consumer

> Processing a queue with one consumer in series, so throughput cannot scale with load.

Record: `lex:single-serial-consumer`
Kind: anti-pattern
Layer: [Execution Core](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/execution-core.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lex-single-serial-consumer

## category

- [Event Messaging Async](https://banes-lab.com/records/lex-category/event-messaging-async.md)

## referenced-by

- [Competing Consumers](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/competing-consumers.md)