Rate Limiting / User Experience

Kind: tension

Record: tension:rate-limiting-user-experience

Canonical: Schema

"rate-limiting" (performance-core layer) is traded against "User Experience" (human-factors layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "User Experience" and choosing an explicit operating point.

Listed in Tensions, after Resource Utilization / Over-Provisioning and before Memory Efficiency / CPU Cost.

In tension with

• Rate Limiting
• User Experience

Mechanism

• irreducible-tradeoff

Linked from

• Scalability / Performance / Optimization
• Resolution mechanisms