Lexicon

Unbounded Access

Kind: anti-pattern

Layer: Performance Core

Record: lexicon:unbounded-access

Canonical: Lexicon

Permitting callers to make unlimited requests with no rate limit, allowing overload and abuse.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Single-Primary Read Contention and before Unbounded Memory Growth.

Category

  • Scalability / Performance / Optimization

Negated by

  • Rate Limiting

Violates

  • Rate Limiting

Linked from

  • Scalability / Performance / Optimization