Backpressure

Kind: mechanism

Layer: Correctness Core

Record: architecture:backpressure

Severity: contextual

Scope: stream, queue, service

Canonical: Ontology

A mechanism that lets a consumer signal its capacity, so a producer slows down when the consumer falls behind.

Listed in Architecture principles, after Bulkhead Pattern and before Assessment.

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