Lexicon

Bounded Queue

Kind: technique

Layer: Correctness Core

Record: lexicon:bounded-queue

Canonical: Lexicon

A technique for giving a queue a fixed capacity, so producers are slowed or refused instead of exhausting memory.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Load Shedding and before Fail Fast or Fall Back.

Category

  • Error Handling / Resilience

Refactors

  • Missing Backpressure
  • Backpressure

Linked from

  • Anti-patterns
  • Error Handling / Resilience