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Percentiles don’t work: Analyzing the distribution of response times for web services

Adrian Cockcroft

The mean and percentile measurements hide this structure, but the rest of this post will show how the structure can be measured and analyzed so that you can figure out a useful model of your system, understand what is driving the long tail of latencies and come up with better SLAs and measures of capacity.

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Revisiting “Serverless Architectures”

The Symphonia

Gojko Adzic has done some great speaking and writing on his experience here, and I included the link to his talk from late 2017. I also rewrote the section on Startup Latency since Cold Starts are one of the big “FUD” areas of Serverless. Lambda has configuration now and it has reserved capacity to help you avoid DoS’ing yourself.