Latency

Philly ETE 2020 – Theo Schlossnagle – Latency SLOs Done Right

Check out our YouTube playlist to watch all the talks from Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise 2020. Abstract Median, average, 90th, 99th percentile. We’ve all seen these metrics on our monitoring systems, both open source and from commercial vendors, but often they are used incorrectly when constructing Service Level Objectives. This session will show three … Read More

Philly ETE 2014 – Gil Tene – Understanding Latency: Pitfalls, Lessons & Tools

In this talk, Gil Tene (CTO, Azul Systems) will demonstrate and discusses some common pitfalls, false assumptions and problematic measurement techniques that lead to dramatically incorrect reporting results, and will explain how these false measurements naturally occur using the most common measurement methods and tools in use today.

Philly ETE 2014 #21 – Understanding Latency: Pitfalls, Lessons & Tools – Gil Tene

From the abstract: Understanding application responsiveness and latency is critical not only for delivering good application behavior but also for maintaining profitability and containing risk. However, good characterization of bad data is useless. If measurements of response time present false or misleading latency information, even the best analysis can lead to wrong operational decisions and … Read More