the.com/bottlenecks
the one slow part everyone blames the whole system for.
means the narrowest point in a process that caps how fast everything else can go, no matter how good the rest is.
from literally the neck of a bottle — narrow, so liquid pours slow no matter how big the bottle is; engineers borrowed the image for any system with a chokepoint.
theory of constraintsgoldratt built entire management philosophy on fixing one bottleneck
speeding up non-bottlenecksoften does nothing, sometimes makes things worse
cpu vs gpucomputing performance almost always traces to one bottleneck
movesfix one and the constraint just relocates elsewhere