[kragen]

She mentioned a hell of a lot of googlable terms: epoll_wait, Apache thundering herd, EPOLLONESHOT, EAGAIN, idempotent requests, userspace threads, copy-on-write, queue depth determination, selective LIFO, strongly typed RPC, ...

[bshanks]

By the way, what is "selective LIFO"? I googled it and couldn't find it. Also, I couldn't find anything on queue depth determination.

[kragen]

It's a new term to me, but I think “selective LIFO” means switching to LIFO scheduling under overload conditions as a load-shedding measure: https://landing.google.com/sre/sre-book/chapters/addressing-...

Presumably “queue depth determination”, another new term for me, means determining how big the queue of pending requests for a service is allowed to get before further requests are refused (another load shedding measure) rather than being enqueued.