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Fan-Out Latency Simulator

Simulate a request fanning out to N downstream services and see how tail latency compounds.

EngineeringBackendArchitectureNetworking
5
120ms
±40%
0%
Advanced: timeout
ms
72ms158ms148ms138ms128ms
Total response time
158ms
Bottleneck service
#2
158ms
If it were serial instead
644ms
4.1× slower
P(≥1 call fails)
0.0%
at 0% per call × 5 calls
p50 total time
157ms
p95 total time
167ms
p99 total time
168ms
Percentiles are estimated from 200 independent seeded re-draws of this scenario, not a theoretical distribution.
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Your total time is just the slowest branch
Adding more parallel calls doesn't slow you down on average — but every extra branch is another chance for a slow outlier, a timeout, or a random failure to become your new bottleneck.

Understand Fan-Out Latency Simulator

What this tool helps you understand

Configure N downstream calls, parallel or serial, each with its own latency distribution, and watch the overall response time build — the slowest branch always wins, and this makes it visible.

When to use it

Use Fan-Out Latency Simulator when engineering, backend, and architecture work raises questions about fan-out latency, tail latency, and parallel requests and you need a concrete view before making the next move.

How to read the result

Compare the shape and direction of different scenarios. The useful signal is how the result changes when an input changes, rather than one isolated number.

Assumptions and limits

This is a simplified explanatory model, not a load test or production forecast. Real systems can include dependencies, distributions, failures, and feedback loops outside the selected inputs.

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