Load shedding as a technique seems to make sense but to me it never seems to be the correct tool to reach for. Of course you need some basic load shedding to ha

Load shedding as a technique seems to make sense but to me it never seems to be the correct tool to reach for. Of course you need some basic load shedding to handle ddos type scenarios, but anything beyond that seems like overkill. At (work) our services achieve high availability (99.99%) simply by being composed of reliable parts. Most effort is focused here and it seems to have a good payoff ratio. When we do try to add anything like graceful degradation it seems to strongly hurt code readability/ease of understanding because it requires additional code branches and either a fair bit of boilerplate or extra abstractions. This could be a result of the scale we are at/the maturity of our tools but I'm interested in if anyone else has some hands on experience.