Articles tagged with
hermes

05 Apr 2023

Dynamic Workload Balancing in Hermes

Hermes is a distributed publish-subscribe message broker that we use at Allegro to facilitate asynchronous communication between our microservices. As our usage of Hermes has grown over time, we faced a challenge in effectively distributing the load it handles to optimize resource utilization. In this blog post, we will present the implementation of a dynamic workload balancing algorithm that we developed to address this challenge. We will describe the approach we took, the lessons we learned along the way, and the results we achieved.



21 Apr 2017

Distributed rate limiting of delivery attempts

In our services ecosystem it’s usually the case that services can handle a limited amount of requests per second. We show how we introduced a new algorithm for our publish-subscribe queue system. The road to production deployment highlights some key distributed systems’ takeaways we’d like to discuss.