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Grokking Streaming Systems
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Grokking Streaming Systems

by Ning Wang, Josh Fischer
March 2022
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
312 pages
6h 29m
English
Manning Publications
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9 Backpressure

In this chapter

  • an introduction to backpressure
  • when backpressure is triggered
  • how backpressure works in local and distributed systems

Never trust a computer you can’t throw out a window.

—Steve Wozniak

Be prepared for unexpected events is a critical rule when building any distributed systems, and streaming systems are not exceptions. In this chapter, we are going to learn a widely supported failure handling mechanism in streaming systems: backpressure. It is very useful for protecting a streaming system from breaking down under some unusual scenarios.

Reliability is critical

In chapter 4, the team built a stream processing system to process transactions and detect credit card fraud. It works well, and customers are happy so ...

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