"Stop Rate Limiting! Capacity Management Done Right" by Jon Moore
Strange Loop Conference · 4 HN recommendations
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Jon Moore's Strange Loop 2017 talk argues that rate limiting is the wrong tool for protecting services from noisy clients. He proposes concurrency-based capacity management and quotas instead.
Why HN recommends it: HN engineers recommend it for its core insight that limiting concurrency naturally yields request-rate limits, and for its link to queueing theory.
“The basic premise is not do do req/s limiting but rather concurrency limiting which results in req/s limiting by itself.” Read on HN ↗