How to Make Things Slower So They Go Faster
https://www.gojiberries.io/how-to-make-things-slower-so-they-go-faster-a-jitter-design-manual/
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How to Make Things Slower So They Go Faster
https://www.gojiberries.io/how-to-make-things-slower-so-they-go-faster-a-jitter-design-manual/
#HackerNews #HowToMakeThingsSlower #GoFaster #DesignManual #JitterDesign #ProductivityTips
Synchronized demand is the moment a large cohort of clients acts almost together. In a service with capacity $\mu$ requests per second and background load $\lambda_0$, the usable headroom is $H = \mu - \lambda_0 > 0$. When $M$ clients align—after a cache expiry, at a cron boundary, or
#Firefox68 added a view for their website workarounds. And that tells quite an crazy story…
Their pre-installed #WebCompat #GoFaster add-on applies temporary workarounds to web pages to make them work in #Firefox.
Now their explanation[1] however makes one thing pretty obvious: They mostly need to fight web devs. Who either don't test things, (wrongly) sniff UAs or even show "Works in #Chrome" messages.
So a pretty desperate move IMHO, but needed, as it seems.