Fair scheduling.
also: weighted fair queuing · weighted fair queue · fair queuing · fair queueingServing work round-robin across tenants (optionally weighted by plan) instead of first-come-first-served, so one tenant's flood can't starve others.
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- FIFO lets a tenant that enqueued 1M jobs delay everyone behind them.
- One queue per tenant, served in turns: each tenant progresses.
- Weights give paying tiers a bigger share without starving free tiers.