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shippingOct 17, 20241 min read

Latent Queue Maps

Mapping async backlogs into a single, human-readable signal.

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Experiment

Built a small visualization to show how queue latency compounds across services. The goal is to help on-call engineers see bottlenecks before they turn into incidents.

Notes

  • Useful for on-call retrospectives.
  • Needs a faster sampling strategy for large queues.