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evanweaver | 4 years ago

"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and benchmarks." - Mark Twain

What other methods does the community use for measuring distributed latency?

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PeterCorless|4 years ago

"We investigate the issue of coordinate stability over time and show that coordinates drift away from their initial values with time, so that 25% of node coordinates become inaccurate by more than 33 ms after one week. However, daily re-computations make 75% of the coordinates stay within 6 ms of their initial values."

That's the intro from a 2007 paper from Google:

https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...

igouy|4 years ago

After all, facts are facts, and although we may quote one to another with a chuckle the words of the Wise Statesman, 'Lies--damned lies--and statistics,' still there are some easy figures the simplest must understand, and the astutest cannot wriggle out of.

Leonard Henry Courtney, 1895