Priority-Based Shedding

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Dropping low-priority requests under load to protect critical paths. Requests are classified by importance (e.g., checkout > browsing, health checks > background jobs), and lower-priority traffic is shed first when the system approaches capacity.

Key Properties

• Request Priority Classification
• Critical Path Protection
• Shedding Thresholds

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