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Backpressure & Load Control

Runnable Java models of congestion collapse, admission control, token and leaky buckets, load shedding, and SLO-driven load control. Deterministic outputs, checked-in CSVs, reproducible on any machine.

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first post2026-07-19

latest2026-08-02

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012026-08-02
Admission Control Design
A deterministic sweep: goodput peaks at an admission limit of capacity times deadline, then collapses eight slots later.
6 min
022026-07-19
Why Systems Collapse Under Load
110 rps against 100 rps of capacity drops goodput to 42 rps, and retries make it worse. A deterministic Java model.
6 min