How I Resolved an 8‑Million‑Message MQ Backlog at 2 AM: A Proven Generic Solution
At 2 AM an alert triggered when a RocketMQ queue surged from 500 K to 10 M messages, causing severe latency; the article walks through root‑cause analysis, a five‑step emergency fix, long‑term architectural upgrades, monitoring, and scripts to reliably eliminate such MQ backlogs.
