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tail latency: a standalone construct

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the slowest few percent of response times in a large service, which dominate overall latency when requests fan out.

In distributed systems, tail latency refers to the slowest few percent of response times in a large service, which dominate overall latency when requests fan out. This meaning comes from Dean (2013) in Communications of the ACM.[1]

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References

Dean, J., & Barroso, L. A. (2013). The tail at scale. Communications of the ACM, 56(2), 74-80. https://doi.org/10.1145/2408776.2408794

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