tl;dr statsd's UDP socket was getting saturated and since it was due to the nature of node.js, github rewrote a daemon in C that can handle the load they're dealing with. They've been running it in production for 3 years and released it yesterday.
http://githubengineering.com/brubeck/ https://github.com/github/brubeck
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