Queuing Theory / Model Assumptions
Kind: tension
Record: tension:model-assumptions-queuing-theory
Canonical: Schema
"queuing-theory" (performance-core layer) is traded against "Model Assumptions" (performance-core layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Model Assumptions" and choosing an explicit operating point.
Listed in Tensions, after Read Replica / Read-Your-Writes Consistency and before Streaming Architecture / Ordering/State.