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freno: cooperative, highly available throttler service

3 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 2 stories, 1 comment · first 2019-01-18 · latest 2026-07-06

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    GitHub Freno: cooperative, highly available throttler service
    story by nateb2022 · 2026-07-06 · 1 comment
  2. The origin of the name 'freno' is discussed in the README: https://github.com/github/freno#whats-in-a-name What's in a name? "Freno" is Spanish for "brake", as in car brake. Basically we just wanted to call it "throttler" or "throttled"…
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    Freno – Cooperative, highly-available throttler service
    story by dcu · 2019-01-18 · 3 comments