Capacity Management with Concurrency Instead of Rate Limiting
Strange Loop Conference · Talk · YouTube title: "Stop Rate Limiting! Capacity Management Done Right" by Jon Moore
Why it's here
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 covers
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.