Little's Law

Little, J. D. C. (1961). Little's Law.

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Unclassified

Year

1961

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Mechanisms

• Autoscaling Worker Pool
  • Little's Law

    This sourceIt is the sanity check on any capacity plan — you cannot hold load below the queue-blow-up point by adding workers if the real constraint is per-request service time or a saturated downstream.

• Ticket Triage Queue
  • A queue's health is best read the way queueing theory reads any waiting line — by whether arrivals are draining at least as fast as they enter, a relationship made precise by Little's Law.

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