Back pressure, or, how to not accept it if you can't handle it right now
summary
Explains back pressure as a network-protocol concept for Node.js services and how it prevents accepting more work than the service can handle, avoids unbounded buffering, and enables cooperative CPU scheduling so large requests can progress concurrently. Covers how Node streams implement and support back pressure and shows ways to use streams in applications to leverage that behavior.
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