Connection Limit

Definitions

1. The maximum number of simultaneous connections a service, pool, or system is configured to allow. Connection limits protect dependencies from overload, but they also need to be tuned to match workload shape so bottlenecks or queueing do not appear unexpectedly.

   In plain English: A cap on how many simultaneous connections are allowed.

   Example: "The API started timing out not because the database was down, but because the connection limit in the pool was too low for the spike in parallel request volume."

Related Terms

• Performance Optimization
• Keepalive Attack
• Capacity Planning
• Client Pool
• Concurrency Limit
• Connection
• Connection Handler
• Connection Retry
• Connection Timeout