I got the idea of scaling thread pools from a paper[0] coauthored by Eric Brewer (of CAP theorem fame and also vice-president of infrastructure at Google accord

I got the idea of scaling thread pools from a paper[0] coauthored by Eric Brewer (of CAP theorem fame and also vice-president of infrastructure at Google according to Wikipedia). The paper was written in 2001, so things might have changed a bit, but I doubt the example is completely irrelevant today. [0]: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~brewer/papers/SEDA-sosp.pdf https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~brewer/papers/SEDA-sosp.pd...