# Admission control

Term `admission-control`. A service can refuse or defer new work when accepting it would worsen overload.

Practitioner: Nygard. Read in: *Release It!*, §5.6 Handshaking.

## Skills
- [uncomplect](/skills/uncomplect)

## Sources
- Nygard, Michael T. *Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software*. Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2007. [Link](https://archive.org/details/releaseitdesignd0000nyga). ([b4-release-it](/bibliography#b4-release-it))