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Queueing theory

The mathematics of waiting lines, used to predict how delay grows as arrival rate approaches the capacity of a server or team.

Current clusters

build1 publisher

A six-person team's weekly review load grew 7.6x in a quarter

One engineer's quarter of data has median merge time going from 4 hours to 14 while median diff size climbed from 90 lines to 310, and the way both ends of the latency distribution moved points at PR size rather than reviewer saturation.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence26
Adoption18
Hype gap+35
Incentives30
Confidence38