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Patrick Lefler·Sep 11The Brilliance of Queuing TheoryHow many operators does a phone exchange actually need? A.K. Erlang asked that in 1909 for the Copenhagen Telephone Company, and answering…
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Jasmine Park·Jul 15Our LLM service had no backpressure. The provider got 7x slower and our p99 got 25x worse.TL;DR. Our summarization endpoint holds a p99 under 3 seconds. On 21/05 our provider degraded: median call time went from 620ms to about…A response icon1
