HFT CORE SYSTEMS

Capacity, backpressure, and overload policy

Lesson 83 of 96Phase 08: Production safety and operations
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Learning objectives

What you should understand

  1. Model arrival rate, service rate, burst and queue capacity
  2. Choose drop, shed, block or degrade behavior
  3. Expose saturation before correctness collapses

Lab

Hands-on exercise

Overload the pipeline and exercise a documented backpressure policy.

Deliverable

Evidence of completion

A capacity envelope with queue-depth and loss behavior.

Prerequisite
EP 82

Phase 08

Production safety and operations

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