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It prioritizes latency because it's written by Googlers, and Google prioritizes latency. I don't think we need any more complicated explanation.
by stuckagain 10y ago
It prioritizes latency because it's written by Googlers, and Google prioritizes latency. I don't think we need any more complicated explanation.
- user5994461 10y ago... because a typical Google service will have to call many other services to process a request (keyword: fan-out). The effective latency is badly impacted by the _worst_ latencies of these services.
- davecb 10y agoFrom thew point of view of a capacity planner and performance engineer, one goes for low latency first, because for many algorythms, the best throughput is seen when latency is lowest. Some cases will be different, but starting with removing time wasted sitting in a queue is A Universal Good (;-))