thundering herd
noun1
Computing, Computing theory, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences The undesirable situation where a large number of processes waiting for an event are awoken whenever the event occurs, and then engage in a conflict over which process handles the event.
- Adding to execution and monitoring challenges is the “thundering herd” problem endemic to distributed systems, also discussed in Chapter 24. Given a large enough periodic pipeline, for each cycle, potentially thousands of workers immediately start work.2016, Niall Richard Murphy, Betsy Beyer, Chris Jones, Jennifer Petoff, Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems, O'Reilly, →ISBN: