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Load Shedding

Load Shedding

Feb 10, 20261 min read

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Load Shedding

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Strategies for managing system overload by intentionally dropping or deferring requests. Load shedding protects critical paths by sacrificing less important traffic, ensuring the system degrades gracefully under extreme load rather than failing completely.

Concepts

  • Priority-Based Shedding
  • Admission Control
  • Throttling
  • Backpressure Propagation

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  • Priority-Based Shedding
  • Throttling
  • Traffic Management (Reliability)

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