Interns with toasters: how I taught people about load balancers
Who is Rachel and how do her short and simple stories always hit the front-page?<p>They're interesting but I always think they're a little _too_ simple. I mean this entire thing can be summed up with:<p><i>500s (and other errors) are returned faster than processed requests. Load-balancers will find a misbehaving server's queue empty more often and give it all the requests</i>