# Competing Consumers / Ordering

> "competing-consumers" (execution-core layer) is traded against "Ordering" (causality-core layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Ordering" and choosing an explicit operating point.

Record: `tension:competing-consumers-ordering`
Kind: tension
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema#tension-competing-consumers-ordering

## tensions-with

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