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How Intelligent Load Shedding Prevents Cascading Failures in Tier-0 Systems
Salesforce engineers explain how Cloud Atlas replaced per-instance rate limiting with coordinator-free global quota management and intelligent load shedding. The approach uses queue time, priority-aware throttling, noisy-neighbor isolation, observability, and reversible rollout practices to preserve availability and prevent cascading failures in a globally distributed identity platform.