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Queue backlog

Jobs pour in faster than workers drain them, then the backlog levels off.

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Queue backlog: jobs pour in faster than workers drain them, then the backlog levels off.

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Install

Writes one React component and its WebGL runtime into components/illos. Nothing else to install.

The live field draws with WebGL and comes with the one-line add. The SVG you copy or download is its still frame and its labels.

npx shadcn@latest add https://illos.dev/r/shader/queue-backlog.json

Or hand it to your agent

Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and any other coding agent can add it from the prompt.

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How it moves

  1. jobs pour into the backlog.
  2. the workers drain it more slowly than it fills.
  3. the workers catch up and the backlog levels off.

For developers

File size
3.2 KB gzipped
Motion
Plays once, 4.4 s, then holds
Reduced motion
Shows a still
File
queue-backlog.svg

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