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dogproxy. Another of my experiments with Node.js—this is a very simple HTTP proxy which addresses the dog pile effect (also known as the thundering herd) by watching out for multiple requests for a URL that is currently “in flight” and bundling them together.

# 3rd February 2010, 1:05 pm / scaling, node, nodejs, projects, javascript, dogproxy, dogpile, thunderingherd