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How rate limiting, backpressure, and load shedding keep microservices inside safe capacity, with failure timelines, admission controls, and rollout steps.- Published on
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Why adding more service instances can leave throughput flat when the bottleneck is a shared database, lock, connection pool, queue, or dependency.