[kailuowang]

I developed a library to guard against server overload. It automatically gauges the capacity and rejects requests exceeding it.

http://iheartradio.github.io/kanaloa/docs/theories.html

[evanj]

Awesome this is exactly the sort of system I had in mind when I wrote that article, I'll take a look, thanks!

[sitkack]

Logged in users should take priority, depending on the number of page requests, all users will see an error at some point breaking the site for everyone.