Queue Flood
Noun · Slang & Abbreviations
Definitions
A surge of queued work large enough to swamp workers, latency, or downstream systems. In engineering slang, queue floods are often secondary effects of retries or upstream bursts rather than one obviously bad producer.
In plain English: A large surge of queued work that overwhelms the system.
Example: "The outage worsened when the retry logic turned a transient failure into a queue flood that took hours to drain cleanly."