Server-Sent Events (SSE) Backpressure Breaks: Memory Leaks and Socket Starvation in High-Throughput LLM Pipelines
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Streaming LLM completions over Server-Sent Events (SSE) looks trivial in sandbox demos, but unhandled backpressure under real-world network conditions can destroy backend application servers. When slow clients fail to consume token chunks as fast as upstream model APIs generate them, unbounded Node…
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- 2026-10-10 14:27 · DEV Community — AI
Server-Sent Events (SSE) Backpressure Breaks: Memory Leaks and Socket Starvation in High-Throughput LLM Pipelines