This article discusses the importance of server performance under heavy load and explores the FIFO and LIFO queueing strategies. It presents a simulation in Colab to compare the two strategies and their impact on response time, error rate, throughput, and latency.
- The results show that while LIFO performs better at higher query rates, it starts returning errors earlier.
- The adaptive queueing strategy, which switches between FIFO and LIFO based on queue size, performs the best overall.
- Prioritizing requests combined with LIFO or adaptive strategies improves performance, and FIFO has lower throughput and increased latency overhead.
