p50 vs p99 Latency in AI Agent Workloads
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EDITOR BRIEF
The article compares p50 and p99 latency, TTFT, and 10-call agent chains using 1,590 measured requests against DigitalOcean Serverless Inference. It says the fastest single-call TTFT result did not perform best on the full agent task and lost by 28%.
INSIGHTS
This shows why median latency can hide slow tail behavior that matters in real AI apps. If you're learning performance testing, measure full workflows and compare p50 with p99, not just one fast request.
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