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In this insightful piece, Lawrence Jones breaks down the nuances of measuring and understanding latency in distributed systems. The author emphasizes the importance of using percentiles and histograms over simple averages to get a true picture of system performance.
https://blog.lawrencejones.dev/latency/
blog.lawrencejones.dev Adding latency: one step, two step, oops When it comes to complex systems, you can only go so far with synthetic experiments before you need to try something for real, and test in production. There's no substitute for it, and you're likely making the wrong decision if you avoid it. But I can say…
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