The adding jitter strategy was one of the most commented on techniques from 7 Years Of YouTube Scalability Lessons In 30 Minutes on HackerNews . Probably because it's one of the emergent phenomena that you really can't predict and is shocking when you see it in real life. Here's the technique:
Add Entropy Back into Your System
If your system doesn't jitter then you get thundering herds . Distributed applications are really weather …
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