idea for load "balancer" with fan-out/ voting

[Nils Goroll]

Hi Paul,

> so if you could duplicate an http request to multiple servers and get
> the first response, you'd have to be pretty unlucky for all of them to
> be garbage collecting and unresponsive.

This issue can (and should) be solved by properly tuning your Java VMs.

Duplicating workload on the backend to me sounds just like the opposite of what 
you usually want to achieve with an optimization tool like varnish.

Nils