Comment by shoo

future alien FOO technology

> Let's say 99 of your 100 machines are taking 750 msec to handle a request (and actually do work), but this single "bad boy" [machine] is taking merely 15 msec to grab it and kill it. Is it any surprise that it's going to wind up getting the majority of incoming requests? Every time the load balancers check their list of servers, they'll see this one machine with nothing on the queue and a wonderfully low load value.

> It's like this machine has some future alien technology which lets it run 50 times faster than its buddies... but of course, it doesn't. It's just punting on all of the work.

-- https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2015/02/16/capture/