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Lorenz and Little: How Much Does Your Tail Cost?

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Hacker News | Oct 15, 2026 | porridgeraisin

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Today: why I pay a lot of attention to tail latency when optimizing cost. Like many system operators, I think about tail latency using percentiles. Here’s a question: how much does each of my latency percentiles contributed to the mean latency?

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