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Trace one request through an inference platform. What are the spans, what does each cost, and where does latency actually hide?

Follow a request from the client's connection pool to the first text on screen. Work the timing budget, locate a buffering delay and choose what to trace without losing the slow requests.

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Follow a request from the client's connection pool to the first text on screen. Work the timing budget, locate a buffering delay and choose what to trace without losing the slow requests.

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FEDITOR'S NOTE

Look for explicit clock boundaries, non-overlapping timing arithmetic and an experiment that distinguishes engine delay from delivery delay. Tail sampling cannot recover spans discarded upstream.

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