Backpressure Glossary

Browse 2 backpressure terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.

2 Backpressure Terms

Bounded Channel: A channel with a fixed capacity limit, so sending eventually blocks or fails once the buffer is full until receivers catch up. Bounded channels are useful...
Reactive Stream: A specification (originally the Reactive Streams initiative for JVM languages) for asynchronous stream processing with non-blocking backpressure, defining...