CAPACITY-MANAGEMENT-IT5 MIN READ
Sort Traffic By Criticality
Classify traffic as critical, important, degradable, or sheddable for overload planning.
Sort each request class into the overload criticality bucket that best fits the business impact. Critical path Important interactive Degradable Sheddable or deferrable Payment authorization for an active checkout Password reset token validation during sign-in Product search results page Account profile page after login Personalized recommendations that can fall back to cached results Typing indicator in a collaboration document Nightly analytics enrichment job Weekly digest email generation Critical Important Sheddable
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