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by motohagiography 1738 days ago
Recovering product manager in me sees 90th percentile queries with outlier high latency and starts asking instead of how to reduce it, how we can to spin it out into a dedicated premium query feature, as if they're willing to wait, they're probably also willing to pay.

Highly recommend modelling your solution using queueing theory with this: https://queueing-tool.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

As an exercise in discovering the economics of how your platform works, even just thinking about it in these terms can save a great deal of time.