# Graceful degradation

> A saturated App Server turns off its most expensive kinds first, so the cheap ones keep their latency and the expensive ones fail fast.

## Prerequisites

Research these first: [Feature flags](https://wiki.playquorum.dev/research/feature-flags.md).

## Engineering terms

- [Graceful degradation](https://wiki.playquorum.dev/glossary/graceful-degradation.md)
- [Load shedding](https://wiki.playquorum.dev/glossary/load-shedding.md)

## Facts

Graceful degradation
- **Track:** Reliability
- **Era:** [Series A](https://wiki.playquorum.dev/eras/series-a.md)
- **Cost:** 1.13k 1.13k 2.25k
- **Requires:** [Feature flags](https://wiki.playquorum.dev/research/feature-flags.md)

## See also

- [Research tree](https://wiki.playquorum.dev/research.md)

Source: https://wiki.playquorum.dev/research/graceful-degradation