Abstract: An interruption-handling setting for a category of interactions of an application is determined via a programmatic interface. A set of user-generated input is obtained while presentation to a user of a set of output of the category is in progress. A response to the set of user-generated input is prepared based at least in part on the interruption-handling setting.

Abstract: A checkpoint containing identifiers of input blocks of an utterance directed to a dialog-driven application from a client-side component is generated at a dialog-driven application management service. After a connectivity failure and subsequent connectivity re-establishment between the client-side component and the service, a plurality if input blocks including at least some re-transmitted blocks is received at the service. The checkpoint is used to identify at least one input block for which further processing is not performed.

Abstract: A resource of a dialog-driven management service is allocated for a first set of requests based on determining that a population of capacity indicators in a throttling data structure exceeds a threshold. One or more capacity indicator deduction iterations associated with the resource are conducted during a time interval for which the resource remains allocated for the first set of requests. In a given iteration, a number of capacity indicators is deducted from the throttling data structure based on a resource throttling setting. A second set of requests is rejected based on the population of the throttling data structure.