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ECO-ARC-ARCH-006

Name: Unbounded message queues

Category: ARC

Family: ARCH

Primary layer: architecture

System layers: architecture

Description

Queues without bounds hide backpressure and create runaway cost.

Impact

  • confidence: 0.8
  • notes: High propagation under partial failures.
  • type: reliability

Detection

  • languages:
  • infra
  • method: trace

Remediation

  • guidance: Add backpressure, caps, DLQs, and shedding strategies.
  • tradeoffs: Must define loss/priority behavior.

Pattern examples

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Remediation examples

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