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Looking particularly at latency measurements, I found the "How NOT to Measure Latency" [1] talk very illuminating. It goes quite deep into discussing how percen
by michaelmdresser 5y ago
Looking particularly at latency measurements, I found the "How NOT to Measure Latency" [1] talk very illuminating. It goes quite deep into discussing how percentiles can be used and abused for measurement.
[1]: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/latency-response-time/ https://www.infoq.com/presentations/latency-response-time/
- lanstin 5y agoI watch this video once a year and send it to my co-workers whenever averages or medians shows up in a graph for public consumption.
- peheje 5y agoAre the points written in a readable format anywhere?
- severine 5y agohttp://highscalability.com/blog/2015/10/5/your-load-generator-is-probably-lying-to-you-take-the-red-pi.html http://highscalability.com/blog/2015/10/5/your-load-generato... Discussed previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10334335 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10334335
- rattray 5y agoWhat are some of the ways percentiles can be abused?
- alexanderdmitri 5y ago# Power Statement !*Plowser*!* is in the 99th percentile of browsers by global user count! # Fact Sheet - !*Plowser*! is used by 2,050 people - sample size of browsers is 10,000 (this includes toy apps on GitHub and almost all browsers in the sample have no record of active users) - those using !*Plowser*! have no choice as the developing company $*DendralRot Inc*$ forces all its employees, contractors and users of their enterprise '?_shuiteware_?' (a name derived by mashing |-->shite|software|suite<--| into one word) to use their browser - if we place the number of global browser users at a conservative 1,000,000,000, !*Plowser*! actually has 0.00000205% of users