
Transactional Latency: Measuring Time-to-Inbox
For OTPs and password resets, seconds are the metric. Where latency hides in the sending path, how to measure time-to-inbox honestly, and what budgets to hold.
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For OTPs and password resets, seconds are the metric. Where latency hides in the sending path, how to measure time-to-inbox honestly, and what budgets to hold.

Everyone has received the same email twice. The retry loops, queue semantics, and race conditions that cause duplicates, and the idempotency patterns that stop them.