Concurrency Limit

Noun · Development

Definitions

  1. A configured cap on how many tasks, requests, workers, or operations may run in parallel at once. Concurrency limits are used to protect downstream dependencies, control memory usage, and keep throughput stable under load instead of letting every caller fan out without bounds.

    In plain English: A maximum number of operations allowed to run at the same time.

    Example: "The team added a concurrency limit to the export worker so one noisy tenant could not saturate the database with hundreds of parallel report queries."

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