Load shedding.
also: shed load · shedding load · shed trafficDeliberately dropping or rejecting excess work, lowest priority first, so the system survives overload.
the two-minute refresher
- Use it when losing some work beats losing everything: metrics, logs, analytics events.
- Shed by priority: keep payments, drop recommendations.
- Reject early (at the edge) and cheaply, before spending effort on doomed requests.
- Count what you drop, so shedding is visible.