change topics stats backlogSize to uint64

[wnyffenegger]

Motivation

• Having thought about the previous PR, leaving the backlogSize as a signed int would likely lead to overflow conditions. Changing to uint64 to avoid those conditions.

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Change backlogSize to be a uint64.

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