Lucas Costa has written a good article on . Unfortunately, when calling it backpressure, he used the wrong metaphor.[1] Backpressure is about signaling to upstream processes that they running too fast and need to slow down. Note that the suggestions presented by Costa are mostly about signaling to the upstream process that it needs to do things differently, rather than just slow down. This has more to do with ensuring sufficient quality is sent downstream, rather than quantity.This irked me. ...

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