Multiple ChoiceHard 45s
Backpressure vs dropping
When a downstream can't keep up, which strategy best preserves system health?
Options
- 1Buffer everything in memory indefinitely until the downstream recovers
- 2Ignore the slowdown entirely and continue forwarding requests upstream at exactly the same rate
- 3Apply backpressure or shed load explicitly rather than queuing without bound
- 4Retry every failed request immediately in a tight loop until it eventually happens to succeed
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