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Mis on backpressure voogudes?
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Backpressure in streams is a data flow control mechanism that prevents buffer overflow when data production is too fast compared to consumption.
When the data source (producer) generates data faster than the consumer can process it, there is a risk of memory overflow or data loss. Backpressure allows the consumer to signal to the source to slow down data transmission or temporarily halt it.
For example, in Node.js streams, the stream.pause() method and the drain event are used to implement backpressure, balancing the speed of reading and writing data.