ASP.NET Core
Shed load under pressure
Load Shedding: Dropping Requests to Save Your System
The author explains how traffic spikes and client retries can tip a service over, and why rate limiters and circuit breakers do not fully solve it. Load shedding, which drops requests based on current system health, is presented as the missing piece. The article walks through ASP.NET Core and Kestrel ideas for shedding early and by endpoint priority, useful for anyone running public APIs.