I struggle to follow the connection between the universal scalability law to sync vs async. Is the idea that you either run things relying on synchronicity (only doing few enough things that you can handle the contention, driving the α and β coefficients down through high bandwidth communication) or you build things so that it can work asynchronously (devolving more decision making to others)?
The strict divide between high slack and low slack reminds me of synchronous and asynchronous companies: hybrids seem to work poorly.
Queuing theory: https://blog.acolyer.org/2015/04/29/applying-the-universal-scalability-law-to-organisations/
I struggle to follow the connection between the universal scalability law to sync vs async. Is the idea that you either run things relying on synchronicity (only doing few enough things that you can handle the contention, driving the α and β coefficients down through high bandwidth communication) or you build things so that it can work asynchronously (devolving more decision making to others)?