Implementing The Tail at Scale in Golang (opens in new tab)

Recently, I read the famous 2013 Google paper Tail at Scale. And boy oh boy was it an enjoyable read. It was fascinating to read how such a simple idea could be used in such an elegant way to reduce latency in distributed systems. And in this post, I’ll discuss my golang implementation of the paper. But first, let’s discuss the paper itself. ℹ️ You can find my implementation of the paper in this github repository.