A throttling process, or a throttling controller, is responsible for regulating the rate at which application processing is conducted, either fixedly or dynamically.
For example, in high throughput processing scenarios, as may be common in OLTP architectures, a throttling controller may be imbedded in the platform to balance publishing rates with consumption rates, optimizing system resources for processing, and preventing unsustainable consumption. In, say, an integration architecture, a throttling process may be built into the application logic to prevent a slow end-system from becoming overloaded as a result of overly aggressive middleware publishing.