Five Ways to Say "Slow Down" — A Field Guide to Rate Limiting Algorithms
What Is Rate Limiting? Rate limiting is a rule: no more than N requests in T time. 100 API...
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Mar 21, 2026Flow control and backpressure: Preventing memory saturation in event consumption
What do you do when consumers can't keep up with the speed of producers? Learn how to design resilient backpressure strategies using non-blocking buffers in Go.
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Mar 29, 2025Node.js streams | pipe through your way ✅ | say NO to pressure!
Description Poll phase is hijacked by the uncontrolled flow from readable stream. This is...
Mar 29, 20253 min read5 reactions1 comments
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Jun 28, 2024Mastering Back Pressure in Reactive Distributed Systems
Introduction In the realm of reactive programming, back pressure is a fundamental...
Jun 28, 20245 min read4 reactions0 comments
Backpressure in Reactive Systems
Mid-January, I held a talk at Kotlin.amsterdam based on my post Migrating from Imperative to Reactive...
Mar 14, 20215 min read10 reactions0 comments
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Aug 6, 2020Handle backpressure between Kafka and a database with Vert.x
As we already discussed in the past, asynchronous programming brings many pros in developing reactive...
Aug 6, 20205 min read21 reactions3 comments