Avery Pennarun (one of the original authors of Tailscale) summarises the state-of-the-art wisdom with respect to network queue management. Bookmark this to come back to when you need it.

How big should your queue be, and what should you do when it fills up? Many times, we implement or even deploy a networking system before we have answered those questions. Luckily, recent research has given us some guidelines. Here’s what we know: […]