[georgeoliver]

Perhaps a build system with a very high kurtosis means the builds are usually the same.

[galenmarchetti]

Ahh this is the closest one to what we originally meant haha..(founder here). but the intent was to mitigate the impact of “kurtosis” on your system by enabling engineers to see how the whole environment worked in testing (and other parts of the development process). We also have a love for taleb’s books about excelling in uncertainty, in high “Kurtosis” environments, so going with the theme made sense for us.

But I see from the comments it is decently confusing!

[dooglius]

It's the opposite, high (positive) kurtosis means fat tails.

[dpflan]

I think high would actually mean more outliers and not good for managing a distributed system...