💻 **Article: The Mathematics of Backlogs: Capacity Planning for Queue Recovery**

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,

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