Definition
The intentional throttling of requests sent to LLM providers or vector databases to remain within allocated Quotas (TPM/RPM), balancing agent responsiveness against the risk of 429 'Too Many Requests' errors. Implementing it involves a trade-off between maximizing pipeline throughput and maintaining system stability under high-concurrency agentic workflows.
Managed via LLM provider tokens-per-minute (TPM) rather than traditional HTTP packet-shaping.
"A metronome governing a production line to prevent the assembly belt from jamming due to over-speeding."
- Exponential Backoff(Mitigation Strategy)
- Token Usage(Constraint Metric)
- 429 Error(Direct Consequence)
Conceptual Overview
The intentional throttling of requests sent to LLM providers or vector databases to remain within allocated Quotas (TPM/RPM), balancing agent responsiveness against the risk of 429 'Too Many Requests' errors. Implementing it involves a trade-off between maximizing pipeline throughput and maintaining system stability under high-concurrency agentic workflows.
Disambiguation
Managed via LLM provider tokens-per-minute (TPM) rather than traditional HTTP packet-shaping.
Visual Analog
A metronome governing a production line to prevent the assembly belt from jamming due to over-speeding.