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by yardstick 249 days ago
It’s the Thundering Herd Problem.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thundering_herd_problem

In short, if it’s all at the same schedule you’ll end up with surges of requests followed by lulls. You want that evened out to reduce stress on the server end.

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Thank you. Bonsai and adzm as well. :)