Overload protection
Resilience & capacity
Overload protection
Overload protection limits incoming work when capacity is exhausted. Use load shedding, rate limits, and bounded queues, and test how clients respond to rejection.
Resources
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Release It! (2nd edition)Book · Michael T. Nygard · Amazon affiliate link, opens Amazon in a new tabAmazon Builders' LibraryArticle · Amazon · opens in a new tabSRE book: handling overloadBook · Google · opens in a new tabSRE book: addressing cascading failuresBook · Google · opens in a new tabUsing load shedding to avoid overloadArticle · David Yanacek · opens in a new tabSite Reliability Engineering (the Google SRE book)Book · Betsy Beyer, Chris Jones, Jennifer Petoff, Niall Richard Murphy · Amazon affiliate link, opens Amazon in a new tabChaos EngineeringBook · Casey Rosenthal, Nora Jones · Amazon affiliate link, opens Amazon in a new tab