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What leads you to believe performance follows a normal distribution? For a given especially slow request would you expect a corresponding especially fast reque
by currysoup_t 9y ago
What leads you to believe performance follows a normal distribution?
For a given especially slow request would you expect a corresponding especially fast request?
- DenisM 9y agoStandard deviation applies to all distributions, not just the normal distribution.
- teej 9y agoYou are arguing against yourself here. Having the mean and 95th/99th percentile is going to give you a better picture of the distribution than mean alone. Mean alone actually doesn’t give you ANY idea of the distribution. I don’t know why OP is being downvoted, managing to 95th percentile is very common practice and I also thought was a missing addition to the article.