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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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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"…
comment by shlomi-noach · 2019-01-19 · in Freno – Cooperative, highly-available throttler service