System Design Patterns: From Fundamentals to Real Systems
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Backpressure
1. The Pattern
When a producer sends data faster than its consumer can process it, a buffer fills, data drops, or the producer slows. Backpressure means deliberately choosing the response and propagating the consumer's "slow down" signal upstream. Without that choice, an unbounded buffer eventually causes an outage.
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