ScarceUsage
ScarceUsage is a conceptual framework used in resource management to describe and govern the use of scarce computational or physical resources under demand. It covers methods for measuring scarcity, allocating limited resources, and adapting system behavior to prevent exhaustion. The term is not a formal standard across fields, but appears in discussions of resource-aware scheduling, throttling, and admission control within cloud environments, distributed systems, and embedded devices.
Core ideas include measuring scarcity with indicators such as utilization, queue depth, latency, or error rates;
Implementation typically involves three components: observability to monitor resource state; a scarcity metric or score to
Applications span cloud platforms that throttle tenant requests, distributed data stores that apply backpressure to hot
Critiques include added system complexity, potential unfairness if policies favor certain tasks, and the overhead of
See also: resource management, throttling, backpressure, admission control.