Missing Backpressure
Kind: anti-pattern
Layer: Enforcement Core
Aliases: Unbounded Ingestion
Record: architecture:missing-backpressure
Severity: discouraged
Scope: resilience_recovery
Formed by: Accept work faster than the system can process it without queue limits, admission control, rate limits, or shedding.
Canonical: Ontology
A defect in which a system accepts work faster than it can process it, with no limit or shedding.
Listed in Architecture principles, after Timeout Omission and before Silent Data Corruption.