"Stop Rate Limiting! Capacity Management Done Right" by Jon Moore
Why Hacker News 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.
What it is
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.
Recommended by 4 HN commenters across 4 different months, 2017 to 2024.
What Hacker News said
Recommends luckystarr · 2017-12 · on “How to Design a Scalable Rate Limiting Algorithm”
For a different view on the topic watch "Stop Rate Limiting! Capacity Management Done Right" [this video] The basic premise is not do do req/s limiting but rather concurrency limiting which results in req/s limiting by itself. Concurrency limiting is rather simple and doesn't require a lot of code complexity.
Recommends cpeterso · 2018-01 · on “Ask HN: What’s your favorite talk from 2017?”
* To Serve The People: Public Interest Technologists. Matt Mitchell is a hacker, security researcher, operational security trainer, and data journalist who founded & leads CryptoHarlem, impromptu workshops teaching basic cryptography tools to the predominately African American community in upper Manhattan. [LINK] * Stop Rate Limiting! Capacity Management Done Right. Jon Moore is the Chief Software Architect at Comcast Cable, where he focuses on delivering a core set of scalable, performant, robust software components for the company's varied software product development groups. [this video] * Keeping Time in Real Systems. This talk will tour the fascinating timekeeping mechanisms used in real sys
Recommends oftenwrong · 2019-06 · on “It’s Time for Some Queueing Theory”
Relevant to queueing theory: "Stop Rate Limiting! Capacity Management Done Right" by Jon Moore [this video]
Recommends Lanzaa · 2024-11 · on “Amazon S3 Adds Put-If-Match (Compare-and-Swap)”
You will like the Strange Loop 2017 talk about this subject: "Stop Rate Limiting! Capacity Management Done Right" by Jon Moore [this video] Concurrent capacity might not be the best metric.