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I don't believe it does. As I understand it, the load balancer has a queue in which it can buffer infinite requests, but it drains that queue by pushing work to the backend servers…

No, I mean when you have a queue broker that the backends can pull work from when they become idle, rather than relying on load balancing which will send work to backends while the…

What's conspicuously missing is the plot of performance when you do have a well tuned queue in front of the service. Yes, having a queue becomes less important the more backend ser…

I think you confuse beliefs with values by placing that at the root. I'd have a problem with it if my tax bracket were determined by whether I loved the Christian Lord rather than …

Many, many years ago I was a dedicated Emacs user. My recollection is that there was a very lightweight binary that would launch a single window utilising an existing Emacs process…

The bad thing about these sort of tools is when you work in a shop where multiple platforms are used for development and one of the platforms doesn't support the tool, or the tool …

Very interesting take that is probably true in my experience. (And not to say I doubt you at all but would be interested in a citation for that correlation.) I think also that brig…

Mostly pretty sound advice here, but oh, this rankles! -- "In situations where bugs aren’t mission critical (ex. 99% of web apps), you’re going to get further with shipping fast an…

Fact checking : the monarch does not have to ask permission to enter the City. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=City_of_London_...

For direct user interactions (such as opening a combo box) the threshold of perception is actually much closer to 30ms than 300ms. 300ms is usable but far from a pleasure to use. I…

I strongly disagree on this. If a search with no results costs them about the same amount of compute as one with results, then satisfying that requirement would give them a commerc…