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by sethammons 825 days ago
The one way signaling of the cell to alter tue production of chemicals kinda reminds me of thermostat adaptive weighted load balancing. Signals from nodes say that it can take more or should take less load, hot nodes shed automatically to cold nodes. And since it is weighted, if all nodes report hot, no load is shedded until full saturation of the cluster.

Kinda felt similar to the cell comms. I wonder what interesting distributed coordination ideas we could learn in distributed systems computing from cellular biology.