https://www.infoq.com InfoQ Load Testing Articles feed https://www.infoq.com/articles/capacity-planning-queue-recovery/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=Load+Testing-articles <img src="https://res.infoq.com/articles/capacity-planning-queue-recovery/en/headerimage/The-Mathematics-of-Backlogs-Capacity-Planning-for-Queue-Recovery-header-1778227922596.jpg"/><p>Backlogs in distributed systems are arithmetic problems, not mysteries. This article provides practical formulas for calculating backlog drain time, sizing consumer headroom, and setting auto-scaling triggers. It covers key failure modes — retry amplification, metastable states, and cascading pipeline bottlenecks — plus when to shed load instead of draining.</p> <i>By Rajesh Kumar Pandey</i> Queue Load Testing Failure Capacity Planning DevOps Architecture & Design article Wed, 13 May 2026 09:00:00 GMT https://www.infoq.com/articles/capacity-planning-queue-recovery/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=Load+Testing-articles Rajesh Kumar Pandey 2026-05-13T09:00:00Z /articles/capacity-planning-queue-recovery/en