
PERFORMANCE ENGINEERINGFlow control.
PALAKORN / FIELD NOTES↗ Jan 28, 2026 12 min read
Backpressure and Flow Control in Async Systems
When a producer outpaces its consumer — Node streams, Go channels, Rust async, RxJS, and Kafka consumer lag. The patterns that actually keep memory in check.
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