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Sort of reminds me of this post on Netflix Tomcat tuning https://netflixtechblog.com/tuning-tomcat-for-a-high-throughput-fail-fast-system-e4d7b2fc163f https://netflixtechblog.com/tuning-tomcat-for-a-high-through... Requests spikes cause the whole system to backup where appropriate upper limit tuning allows the servers to drop requests before they get overloaded and grind to a halt