mhawthorne

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   by mhawthorne 5mo ago

   Good question - the question of whether to log the millisecond when the request starts or ends is a great example of how complex these things are to think about accurately, let alone capture. I'd want to log when the requests start, as
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   by mhawthorne 6mo ago

   Agree that CQRS seems like a useful way to partitions writes from reads, aka slower requests from faster requests, to avoid many fast requests waiting behind a few slow ones in line. But even if you shifted reads to one or more caches or re
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   by mhawthorne 6mo ago

   Author here. That was a great article, thanks for sharing. Especially the part about how your probability of experiencing a p99 latency is much higher than you'd intuit. I don't agree with all of it, but definitely a few points
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   by mhawthorne 6mo ago

   Author here. It's a great analogy. I had a section in the post I cut out about how optimizing queue selection started out as a technical problem, but transformed into more of a business and ethical problem the more I pondered it. You&
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   by mhawthorne 6mo ago

   Interesting approach. I make heavy use of Mermaid as I find it easier to make small changes and bulk generate-and-copy for publishing elsewhere. But being able to update the diagram and automatically generate the output files is a nice hy
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   Queueing Requests Queues Your Capacity Problems, Too(pushtoprod.substack.com)

   35 points by mhawthorne 6mo ago|25 comments