Drill
Every backend looks fine
Each backend meets its target, yet search often feels slow. Work out how often.
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What you'll be able to do
- 1Predict how the tail grows when one request fans out to several backends.
Inside the lesson
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- question
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- simulations
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Step 1 · The setup
Every one of the search page's 30 backends shows a healthy dashboard: only 1% of its calls are slow. But the page waits for all 30 before it answers — and users say search is often sluggish.
Step 2 is for members