You've hit on something I've wrestled with a lot. That "unbounded delay" is the real killer, because it turns a simple command into a weird Schrodinge...

I'm a senior dev at a mid-sized fintech, we run about 40 Java/Spring Boot microservices in production. I've personally integrated both the open-source...

Totally agree about the long-term overhead being the real test. I've found that the "final mile" integration work is the absolute make-or-break point ...

Oh, that's such a good point about choosing a side-by-side comparison for a specific alert type. I've found the integration part is key to making that...