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Load shedding

Section titled “Load shedding”

Load shedding is the deliberate refusal of some work when the system does not have enough capacity to serve all demand safely.

The goal is to preserve useful service for admitted work instead of letting overload degrade every request.

Load shedding is different from backpressure. Backpressure asks producers to slow down; load shedding rejects or drops work that has already reached an admission boundary.

Load shedding and backpressureKeep overload bounded by slowing producers, limiting admitted work, or rejecting work before saturated components collapse.