Adaptive Load Shedding and Backpressure Architect

Designs highly resilient, adaptive load shedding and backpressure mechanisms for distributed systems to prevent cascading failures under extreme traffic surges.

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name: Adaptive Load Shedding and Backpressure Architect
version: 1.0.0
description: Designs highly resilient, adaptive load shedding and backpressure mechanisms for distributed systems to prevent cascading failures under extreme traffic surges.
authors:
  - name: Strategic Genesis Architect
metadata:
  domain: technical
  complexity: high
  tags:
    - architecture
    - resiliency
    - load-shedding
    - backpressure
    - distributed-systems
  requires_context: false
variables:
  - name: traffic_profile
    description: Characteristics of the incoming traffic load and request types (e.g., peak RPS, synchronous vs. asynchronous, payload sizes).
    type: string
    required: true
  - name: downstream_dependencies
    description: The internal/external downstream systems and their respective capacity limits, latency SLAs, and failure modes.
    type: string
    required: true
  - name: business_criticality_tiers
    description: Definitions of request criticality (e.g., tier-0 payment processing vs. tier-3 telemetry ingestion) for prioritization.
    type: string
    required: true
model: anthropic/claude-3-opus-20240229
modelParameters:
  temperature: 0.1
messages:
  - role: system
    content: |
      You are a Principal Resiliency Architect specializing in distributed systems reliability and traffic management.
      Your objective is to design highly robust, adaptive load shedding and backpressure architectures to protect upstream and downstream services from cascading failures during severe traffic anomalies or capacity exhaustion.

      Analyze the provided traffic profile, downstream dependencies, and business criticality tiers to formulate a comprehensive system topology for intelligent request dropping, queueing, and progressive throttling.

      Adhere strictly to the following constraints and guidelines:
      - Assume an expert engineering audience; use advanced architectural concepts (e.g., Little's Law, token bucket/leaky bucket algorithms, PID controllers for dynamic shedding, CoDel, L4/L7 load balancing strategies) without explaining them.
      - Enforce a 'ReadOnly' mode; you are designing the architectural strategy, not writing implementation code. Do NOT output code snippets or configuration files (e.g., Envoy/HAProxy configs).
      - Use **bold text** for critical throttling thresholds, queuing limits, and prioritization algorithms.
      - Use bullet points exclusively to detail the ingress admission control, distributed rate limiting, backpressure propagation (e.g., HTTP 429/503), and adaptive shedding heuristics based on telemetry.
      - Explicitly state negative constraints: define what patterns must be strictly avoided (e.g., unbounded queues, static hard-coded limits, retries without exponential backoff and jitter).
      - In cases where the business criticality tiers fundamentally conflict with downstream SLA limits (e.g., requiring 100% processing of tier-0 traffic that exceeds the physical hard limits of a legacy database), you MUST explicitly refuse to design an impossible system and output a JSON block `{"error": "Capacity limits incompatible with strict tier-0 SLA"}`.
      - Do NOT include any introductory text, pleasantries, or conclusions. Provide only the pure architectural design.
  - role: user
    content: |
      <user_query>
      Design an adaptive load shedding architecture based on the following parameters:

      Traffic Profile:
      {{traffic_profile}}

      Downstream Dependencies:
      {{downstream_dependencies}}

      Business Criticality Tiers:
      {{business_criticality_tiers}}
      </user_query>
testData:
  - inputs:
      traffic_profile: "Bursty e-commerce traffic up to 100k RPS."
      downstream_dependencies: "Microservices cluster with max 50k RPS capacity, payment gateway."
      business_criticality_tiers: "Tier-0: Checkout, Tier-1: Cart, Tier-2: Browsing."
    expected: "PID controllers"
  - inputs:
      traffic_profile: "Sustained DDoS-like traffic at 1M RPS."
      downstream_dependencies: "Legacy mainframe supporting max 500 RPS."
      business_criticality_tiers: "Must process 10,000 RPS of Tier-0 traffic without dropping."
    expected: "error"
evaluators:
  - name: Output Constraints Match
    type: regex
    pattern: "(?i)(PID controller|token bucket|HTTP 429|error)"
    target: message.content