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Reliability


Worker Backpressure (Part 1)

How we taught Canva's queue workers to slow down when dependencies fail, then speed back up on their own.

Mikalai BarysauSep 17, 2026
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Performance

Knowing when to back off

During periods of heavy use, we needed a mechanism to ask the browser and mobile apps to back off and reduce the frequency of auto-saves.

Brendan HumphreysMay 28, 2015

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