Backpressure, Ted Kaminski

2023-08-01

Came across a nice overview of why backpressure is important, and how it enables robust error and overload detection in a distributed system. (Ted calls out how the two main ways to handle overload โ€” exponential backoff and circuit breakers โ€” both depend on backpressure.)

=> Backpressure [Ted Kaminski]

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