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Published on Thu Sep 18 2025 19:00:00 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time) by Orkid Labs

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This week we shipped measurable improvements and cleaned up the experience end‑to‑end. The detector now processes candidates in the 50–168ms band (conservatively ≤200ms at the 97.5th percentile) according to Keen analytics. The API path is predictably fast: around ~24ms median within our EU datacenter and ~151ms median for a US→EU path from San Antonio to our DE server based on fresh autocannon runs. We also gave the live feed its own page, scoped the dashboard under the ORKID product, and made our telemetry both honest and useful by adding sampling, per‑pair TTL dedupe, and explicit labels when a simulated mode is shown.

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