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> recommended setting the timeout to around the P99 time that operations take. I think that's a reasonable starting point, even I might move it towards P99.9.
by jefftk 6y ago
> recommended setting the timeout to around the P99 time that operations take. I think that's a reasonable starting point, even I might move it towards P99.9.
Why would you intentionally drop 1% or even 0.1% of requests?
- afiori 6y agodepending on the distribution of processing times[1] dropping slow request and retrying can improve latency. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat-tailed_distribution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat-tailed_distribution