Systems and methods for overload protection for real-time computing engines

Abstract

A method for providing overload protection to a real-time computational engine configured to compute a plurality of values corresponding to a plurality of entities includes, when an overload protector is in an overload state: identifying one or more entities in a normal status and having high corresponding load contributions; downgrading the identified one or more entities; in response to detecting that a load level is below a low threshold, transitioning the overload protector to a recovery state and beginning a cool down period; and, when the overload protector is in the recovery state: upgrading a first group of entities of the one or more downgraded entities to a normal status; determining whether the cool down period has ended; and in response to determining that the cool down period has ended: upgrading all downgraded entities to the normal status.