Presentation about "The Tail at Scale" paper.

The presentation was built with Reveal.js. And it can be found on /presentation. To run the presentation you only need to open /presentation/index.html.

The demo consists of two web applications. The tool used to test it and get metrics from the applications is vegeta

Web application writen in go found under /external-service. This service emulates a service with a tail problem. P95 is under 20ms but P99 is over 120ms. This is achieve with an internal sleep. This service is meant to be replicated using docker. Specific information about it can be found in /external-service/readme.md.

This is a web application writen in go exposing different endpoints for each of the techniques presented (fanout, hedged requests). The client application depends upon the replicas of external-service. Specific information can be found in /client/readme.md.