Curious to hear if anyone has implemented these and what technology was used.

Hierarchical token buckets are part of the linux kernel for traffic management for instance: https://linux.die.net/man/8/tc-htb

right!? It was a little misleading that the article was written by someone else. (Birgitta Böckeler)

Can anyone recommend a reconciliation application they've had a good experience with? My current work place rolled their own recon service. Is this the norm?

We're trying something called EZOPS for reconciliation, to replace home-grown stuff. I'm not directly involved so can't say if it's a success or not.

Xero is a small business accounting SaaS app that has pretty nice recon. (Disclaimer I used to work there 10 years ago).

+1 I would love to see better rails integration with Ember CLI. It seems pointless to use ember-rails with the direction of ember relying on ES6 modules.