Queues are bad, but software developers love them. The problem with queues is they are binary, either they’re full or empty. You’d think they would magically fix any overload or failure problem. But they don’t, and bring with them a bunch of their own problems.

Hear a war-story about how naive assumptions and over-optimism caused a near week-long ongoing outage.

Learn about some of the reasons why queues are not a one-size fits all solution, and how there is no such thing as a …