Little's law

English Etymology The theorem was proposed by American researcher John Little (academic) John Little (1928–2024). Noun ? en probability theory queueing theory A theorem which states that the long-term average number L of customers in a stationary system is equal to the long-term average effective arrival rate λ multiplied by the average time W that a customer spends in the system. en Katherine Cox-Buday Concurrency in Go: tools and techniques for developers 2017 O'Reilly 978-1-4919-4119-5 130 What about determining how large our queue needs to be to handle a desired number of requests. Can Little's Law help us answer that?