
Practical Backpressure: Handling Traffic Spikes Without Melting Your Services
So, your service is humming along nicely. Everything’s perfect. Your metrics are green. Your team’s morale is higher than your infrastructure budget. And then—BAM—traffic spike. Suddenly you’ve got 10x the normal load, your database connections are maxed out, and your logs look like a coffee shop during finals week: chaotic, loud, and nobody knows what’s happening anymore. This is where backpressure enters the chat, and honestly, it’s one of those concepts that sounds intimidating but is actually just your system politely asking for a timeout instead of accepting everything and imploding spectacularly....
