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The mechanism by which the flow of requests to the downstream system can be regulated in OSB is called as

  1. Request regulation

  2. Throttling

  3. Flow regulation

  4. None of the above
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Explanation

Throttling is the mechanism in OSB that regulates the flow of requests to downstream systems by limiting the number of concurrent requests or requests per time period. This prevents overwhelming backend systems during high load scenarios. Terms like 'request regulation' and 'flow regulation' are descriptive but not the official OSB terminology.

AI explanation

Throttling is the mechanism in OSB (and service-oriented architectures generally) used to regulate and limit the rate or volume of requests forwarded to a downstream system, protecting it from being overwhelmed. It works by queuing or rejecting excess requests once a configured concurrency or rate limit is reached, rather than simply routing or splitting traffic.

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