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ReactiveX seems to have documented notions for it: https://github.com/ReactiveX/RxJava/wiki/Backpressure

Highly recommend the Reactive series of libs. They're typically very well done.

The guy below is right that Akka is perfectly suited.

Akka streams?

There was an initiative not long ago called Reactive Streams which established some common interfaces to build things like this. Back pressure was one of the main concerns.

Some implementations are listed here: http://www.reactive-streams.org/announce-1.0.0

For java there's also: - Project reactor from Spring - Reactive Spring (following up with spring 5.0)