On Latency

Andrew Certain helps getting an understanding of percentile measurements and why it is important to look at certain things from specific perspectives. I found this useful.

If you're wondering what "P-four-nines" means, it's the latency at the 99.99th percentile, meaning only one in 10,000 requests has a worse latency. Why do we measure latency in percentiles?

A thread about how how it came to be at Amazon…https://t.co/OCGSc5c6KZ
— Andrew Certain (@tacertain) May 25, 2019

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May 27, 2019

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devops, latency, measurement, percentile, performance, Twitter