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Kafka Latency: Measuring p99 & p999 Tails

calendar_today January 30, 2026 person stephane-derosiaux domain conduktor

Kafka latency averages hide tail problems. Optimize p99 and p999, not p50, and measure end-to-end from producer commit to consumer processing.