[lacker]

I love the phrase "Prioritized Load Shedding" as corporate-speak for "dropping the less-important traffic."

[therealdrag0]

How is it corporate-speak? Sounds just like standard thoughtful naming. If I was working on a module that did this I would be happy to name it this even if it never got mentioned in any corporate context.

[dboreham]

Dropping some traffic to avoid complete melt down.

[dkarp]

A lot of which is non-essential as well as NON_CRITICAL, like tracking and telemetry

[tofuahdude]

Would you actually name this feature "drop less important traffic"?

[kbar13]

engineer-speak for dropping requests that are less noticeable to users when dropped in order to give services room to recover