rkqueue. This setup was less than ideal because even at that time, Gmail had many, many thousands of tasks, each task representing a fraction of a percent of our users. We cared deeply about providing a good user experience for Gmail users, but such an alerting setup was unmaintainable.
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                                    To address this problem, Gmail SRE built a tool that helped “poke” the scheduler in just the right way to minim