Hacker News Reader

tl;dr: instead of distributing requests round-robin style they give fewer requests to servers with high CPU load and more to servers with low CPU load

Add some complexity for scale and crashing load balancers

View on HN

This sounds like it should be already standard practice

Implementing smart algorithms are easy on paper, but unwanted complexities crop up always, at every level.

It's a great tar pit of Murphy's law and Hofstadter's law combined.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com