SRE · Reliability Engineering · Advanced · 16 min read

Handling Overload: Load Shedding, Throttling and Criticality

Why QPS is a poor capacity measure, per-customer quotas, client-side adaptive throttling, request criticality and how to fail gracefully under too much load.

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