# Missing Backpressure

Record: `arch:missing-backpressure`
Kind: anti-pattern
Layer: [Enforcement Core](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/enforcement-core.md)
Severity: discouraged
Scope: resilience_recovery
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology#arch-missing-backpressure

## Repair

- Refactored by: bounded_queue, rate_limit, load_shed, apply_backpressure_signal
- Detected by: unbounded_queue, no_rate_limit, no_admission_control, memory_grows_with_load
- Violated by: Accept work faster than the system can process it without queue limits, admission control, rate limits, or shedding.

## referenced-by

- [Backpressure](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/backpressure.md)