Many development teams only realize the true cost of latency after their products have already launched into production environments.What appears to users as a simple AI Agent request often involves an elaborate chain of operations behind the scenes: the model interprets the task, invokes various tools, reads from databases, performs additional reasoning, calls external APIs, and finally generates the response. From the user's perspective, they see a single answer, but the system may have traversed back and forth between different services m...