#"backpressure"

Backpressure: Stop Letting Fast Producers Murder Your Slow Services 🌊💀

Your order service is publishing 10,000 events per second. Your email service processes 200 per second. Nobody told the order service to slow down. I watched this kill our e-commerce platform at 2 AM on Black Friday. Here's what backpressure is, why you need it, and how to actually implement it before your on-call rotation becomes a full-time job.