About Throttling

Use throttling in business services to protect the OSB from stuck threads. Throttling allows us to limit the number of outgoing requests currently in progress. At first, I thought it would only be useful to protect shaky downstream services, which crash if hit with too many concurrent requests at once. And throttling is useful for that. But not only for that. It is also useful to protect the OSB itself from too many stuck threads.

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