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on Aug 30, 2020
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Don't trust default timeouts
depending on the distribution of processing times[1] dropping slow request and retrying can improve latency.
[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat-tailed_distribution
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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat-tailed_distribution