Blog Post Club: Queueing - An interactive study of queueing strategies

Frontend First

Sam and Ryan read and discuss a fantastic interactive blog post about queueing in HTTP written by Sam Rose.

Timestamps:

• 0:00 - Intro
• 6:57 - Queueing: An interactive study of queueing strategies
• 9:05 - Why do we need queues?
• 13:16 - FIFO and timing out
• 17:55 - LIFO
• 20:58 - Priority queues
• 25:21 - Active queue management
• 29:08 - Comparing queues
• 36:32 - Conclusion

Links:

• Queueing: An interactive study of queueing strategies
• Up and Down the Ladder of Abstraction