Backpressure explained — the flow of data through softwareBackpressure (or back pressure) is something nearly every software engineer will have to deal with at some point, and for some it’s a frequent problem. But the term itself isn’t nearly as understood and recognized as such. In this post I’m going to elaborate on what exactly backpressure is, when it’s common, and the strategies we can use to mitigate it. I recently gave a talk about this at Reactiv
