Peak headroom or request throttling: sizing the Cassandra driver pool for bursts
Two ways to absorb bursts into a fixed pool The DataStax Java Driver 4 sizes each node's connection pool statically at session start via PoolingOptions — maxConnectionsPerHost together with maxRequestsPerConnection . Nothing resizes the pool in response to load, so bursts that exceed the configured in-flight capacity end up rejected or queued depending on th