Way back when I was at NGINX I worked with several people on integrating a kernel patch for SO_REUSEPORT in Linux to work with NGINX for something I termed “socket sharding“. In hindsight I should have maybe called it “socket load balancing” but the term “sharding” has stuck with that option across the industry now. Whilst this option is a standard option in many *nix kernels it behaves very differently in them. So I thought I would note some details down in this blog post
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