‘Our p99 is fine’ and ‘one user in six has a bad time’ are the same sentence. Herein a small browser tool to visualise the tail-at-scale effect: how a rare slow call stops being rare once a page waits on enough of them, and why every dashboard stays green while it happens.
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This is one of a series of posts on languages, you can read more about that here . A grab bag of observations on the Go programming language, positive and negative. It bucks some orthodoxy on what a good effective language is supposed to look like. It makes sensible engineering decisions and is sq
This is one of a series of posts on languages, you can read more about that here . Scala's blending of programming paradigms in a single language is impressive. It's fun to write code in and is a good language for leaning into the functional plus static typing paradigm. As much as I like