Backpressure
Slow producers when consumers cannot keep up.
Backpressure
What it is
Bounded queues, reject/shed, or credit-based flow control.
When to use
Any async boundary under load.
Failure mode
Unbounded buffers turn latency into OOMs.
Slow producers when consumers cannot keep up.
Bounded queues, reject/shed, or credit-based flow control.
Any async boundary under load.
Unbounded buffers turn latency into OOMs.