FWIW, Netflix uses a sorta similar approach but the overload detection lives on the client-side since different clients may have varying definitions of "slow", may want finer grained control of fallback behavior, etc:
http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/02/fault-tolerance-in-high-volume.html There's a library for this: https://github.com/Netflix/Hystrix and Clojure bindings: https://github.com/Netflix/Hystrix/tree/master/hystrix-contrib/hystrix-clj Cheers, Dave On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 6:35 PM, James Reeves <ja...@booleanknot.com> wrote: > On 17 November 2013 01:52, Cedric Greevey <cgree...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> The distribution will be narrow and peak at around 1 second, though, >> which may not be what you want. Of course, the OP has since indicated that >> he meant non-web uses of HTTP rather than serving web sites... >> > > Web services are generally considered to be part of the web, hence the > term "*web* service" :) > > - James > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
