Agent Engineering
Backpressure
Feedback that causes upstream producers to limit how much work they send when downstream consumers cannot keep up. It helps bound pending work instead of allowing queues and memory to grow without limit. A complete design still needs an explicit policy for waiting, rejection, or discarded work when capacity is exhausted.
Also called: Back pressure
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