Details
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Improvement
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Status: Open
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P3
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Resolution: Unresolved
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Description
The Datastore connector currently has exponential backoff on errors, which is good. But it does not do any other throttling of its write load in response to errors; once a request succeeds, it resumes writing as quickly as it can.
Write loads will be more stable and more likely to compete if the client throttles itself in the event that it receives high rates of errors from the Datastore service; specifically
https://landing.google.com/sre/book/chapters/handling-overload.html#client-side-throttling-a7sYUg is a technique that Google has had success with on other services.
We (Datastore) have a patch in progress to add this behaviour to the connector.
