Jonathan Yu on Nostr: A quick post about why tail latency matters in large-scale distributed systems: ...

A quick post about why tail latency matters in large-scale distributed systems:

"There’s a lot to like about the trimmed mean and friends, but cutting off the right tail will cause you to miss effects where that tail is very important, and may become dominant depending on how clients call your service.

I continue to believe that if you’re going to measure just one thing, make it the mean. However, you probably want to measure more than one thing."

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2021/04/19/latency.html by Marc Brooker (npub1tml…tztd)