Jay Phelps at ReactiveConf 2019

Backpressure—resistance opposing the desired flow of data through software—from massive scale, to death by a thousand cuts, it’s something nearly every software engineer will have to deal with at some point on the client and server. For some, it’s a frequent problem. But the term itself isn’t nearly as understood and recognized. In this talk, we’ll discover what backpressure really is, when it happens, and the strategies you can apply to deal with it.Show more