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2026-04-11 20:43
Why Queues Don’t Fix Overload (And What To Do Instead)
This post is about the physical laws of backpressure in software systems, latency death spirals, and why unbounded queues are a bug.
If you have ever been on call or in charge of ops and system reliability during a massive traffic spike, you know the feeling. The alerts fire, the CPU goes to 100%, memory usage goes through the roof, and the server either crashes or your software becomes unrespons...