The container throttling problem
This is an excerpt from an internal document David Mackey and I co-authored in April 2019. The document is excerpted since much of the original doc was about comparing possible approaches to increasing efficency at Twitter, which is mostly information that's meaningless outside of Twitter without a....
Hasnain says:
Great technical read and an example of how design docs should be written and trade offs should be considered.
“In experiments on hosts running major services at Twitter, this has the expected impact of eliminating issues related to throttling, giving a roughly 50% cost reduction for a typical service with untuned thread pool sizes”
Posted on 2022-02-01T07:29:53+0000