Network throttling
Network throttling is the deliberate limitation or simulation of network or request-processing rates to control resource use or evaluate behavior under constrained conditions.
Kafka Streams in Action, Second Edition
Throttling is the deliberate limitation of request or operation frequency by delaying execution between attempts.
- How it is used
- Limits external API calls inside Kafka Connect source-task polling.
- How deep it goes
- Explains interval calculation, sleeping, empty-result handling, and worker responsiveness without broader rate-limit strategies.
- Examples
- Uses a StockTickerSourceTask that polls a stock-service API and returns SourceRecord data.
- What you can do after
- Operate a throttled SourceTask that spaces API calls and remains interruptible when no records exist.
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Apache Kafka in Action
Throttling is the deliberate delaying or muting of client requests to keep resource usage within an enforced limit.
- How it is used
- Protects Kafka clusters from overloaded producers, consumers, and uneven resource consumption.
- How deep it goes
- Explains quota types, scopes, configuration strategy, and per-broker limitations, but does not provide monitoring procedures.
- Examples
- Uses kafka-configs.sh commands for default, client-specific, and user-specific producer or consumer quotas.
- What you can do after
- Operate/configure Kafka quotas with kafka-configs.sh and distinguish overload protection from guaranteed capacity.
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Related concepts
- frequencyconfigures · Frequency is the count or rate at which an item, event, outcome, or periodic cycle occurs within a specified collection or interval.
- throughputuses · The amount of work, data, or output a system processes or completes per unit of time.
- resource limitproduced by · A resource limit is an enforced or configured maximum on the amount or rate of resource consumption or service activity within a specified scope.
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