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"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and benchmarks." - Mark Twain What other methods does the community use for measuring distributed latency?
by evanweaver 5y 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?
- PeterCorless 5y 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.com/en//pubs/archive/36959.pdf https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...
- igouy 5y agoAfter 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