All software comes bundled with biases and assumptions; small teams may be better off adapting their organization to fit those assumptions, but there exists a threshold beyond which it is easier to adjust software to fit the organization’s assumptions instead. Syncing one inbox is a task, so we have n concurrent inbox sync tasks running in parallel. It was a good chance to learn about RabbitMQ deployment specifics and monitoring tools; unfortunately what I discovered was that most tools are instrumented for tasks per second while our application was best measured in tasks per hour.