Hey folks - I wrote the blog post & the unicorn patch. If you've got questions, I'm watching the thread.
This isn't a magic bullet that'll be good for everyone. Since we're processing money, we prefer to make people wait instead of returning them an error when busy, so we opt towards larger queue lengths instead of erroring early.
That increases the chance a user's been around long enough to get disgruntled and hit refresh, which is where this patch shines.
This isn't a magic bullet that'll be good for everyone. Since we're processing money, we prefer to make people wait instead of returning them an error when busy, so we opt towards larger queue lengths instead of erroring early.
That increases the chance a user's been around long enough to get disgruntled and hit refresh, which is where this patch shines.