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Naming things. Requests per second is clear and unambiguous
by coffeebeqn 3y ago
Naming things. Requests per second is clear and unambiguous
- rerdavies 3y agoBut the question isn't about naming things. It's about what UNITs to use. Unhelpfully, one of the standards cited earlier suggests using the symbol 'r' for request rate. That's a symbol, which is how you would name the variable in a math or physics paper. But let's ignore that. The base unit is 1/s, which causes all kinds of problems in SI, not the least of which is: how do you apply prefixes? μ/s, m/s, k/S, M/s, G/s? If the unit is Bq (Becquerel), the prefix problem goes away: μBq, mBq, kBq, MBq, GBq?
- kragen 3y agoyeah, i mostly wanted to be able to use abbreviations: 'given that this process has an error rate of about 3 μBq, and it's invoked with a frequency of about 1 mBq, it seems like it fails about one out of every 300 times'