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We talked about 42 Monster Problems That Attack As Loads Increase. And in The Aggregation Collection we talked about the value of prioritizing work and making smart queues as a way of absorbing and not reflecting traffic spikes.
Now we move on to our next batch of strategies where the theme is conditioning, which is the idea of shaping and controlling flows of work within your application...
Use Resources Proportional To a Fixed Limit
This is probably the most important rule for achieving scalability within an application. What it means: