A coworker, once, had a cool idea to use Taylor Series to encode histograms for metrics collection. Basically a digest method akin to sketches or t-digests. We

A coworker, once, had a cool idea to use Taylor Series to encode histograms for metrics collection. Basically a digest method akin to sketches or t-digests. We wound up using t-digests as Stripe (iirc) had a good OSS implementation at the time, but using Taylor Series has been lingering in my mind ever since.