Introduction: The Hidden Cost of LatencyMany teams only truly realize how expensive latency is after their product goes live.A seemingly simple AI Agent request often isn't just a single model call behind the scenes—it's an entire execution chain: the model understands the task, calls tools, reads data, reasons again, calls APIs, and finally generates results. Users only see one answer, but the system may have traveled back and forth between different services a dozen times.If each step adds a little waiting time, what accumulates in the end...