An extra 2,298 words about the process of creating the post, including problems I ran into, how I solved them, and where bits of inspiration came from.
It's available to my Patrons at: https://www.patreon.com/posts/queueing-104969340. If you like my work, please consider becoming a Patron. It helps to justify the absurd amount of time each post takes 😅
But queues have trade-offs! If requests spend too long in them, users will give up and refresh or leave. Servers also waste time processing requests that have timed out.
Read the post in full to find out what strategies exist to tackle these problems, and to see a big interactive comparison of all of those strategies at the end!
@KatS This means so much to me to hear. One of the things I’m trying to do is create the introductions I would have wanted, too, using the full power of the modern web.
