"Tail at Scale" at Dean and Barroso, presented by Piyush Goel

We're going to discuss "The Tail at Scale" by Jeff Dean and Luiz André Barroso.

Piyush Goel will present the paper.

## Agenda

• Everyone comes to the meetup having read the paper
• The speaker will present the paper
• We will discuss the paper and ancillary topics

It's understood that not everyone will be able to read the paper beforehand, but we will not let that stop deeper discussions.

## Abstract:
Software techniques that tolerate latency variability are vital to building responsive large-scale Web services.

Systems that respond to user actions quickly (within 100ms) feel more fluid and natural to users than those that take longer. Improvements in Internet connectivity and the rise of warehouse-scale computing systems have enabled web services that provide fluid responsiveness while consulting multi-terabyte datasets spanning thousands of servers; for example, the Google search system updates query results interactively as the user types, predicting the most likely query based on the prefix typed so far, performing the search and showing the results within a few tens of milliseconds.

## Logistics Notes:
The meetup will be on Zoom. We will share the password over email just before the meetup.