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Queues: FIFO, Priority, Delay

FIFO for fairness, priority for SLAs, delay for retries. Three queue shapes, three workloads.

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Three queues fed mixed-priority work. FIFO serves in arrival order. Priority queue interleaves high before low. Delay queue holds messages for a TTL before delivery. Latency distributions per priority level plotted.

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