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Hopefully, anyone who is using becquerels for request rates is also using the delightfully obscure SI unit, the erlang. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlang_(u
by rerdavies 3y ago
Hopefully, anyone who is using becquerels for request rates is also using the delightfully obscure SI unit, the erlang.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlang_(unit) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlang_(unit)
The unit symbol for Erlang is E.
The Erlang unit is used in telecommunications, where it is used in calculations that involve queueing problems. In telecommunications, it can be used to measure the load placed on a communications channel by an average request.
This leads to the delightful identity (for those who were asking for identities):
E = Bq/Bq[Max]
Where Bq[Max] is the the maximum possible number of requests that can be serviced in one second of CPU time if those request were serviced sequentially.
- defrost 3y agoSo obscure it's not listed as an SI base unit nor as an SI derived unit? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Units https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Units
- rerdavies 3y agoThe Erlang unit is defined in ISO/IEC 80000-13:2008 alongside the bit (bit), octet (o), byte (B), baud (Bd) and shannon (Sh). The ISO/IEC 80000 series of standards supersede the old ISO 30 SI standards.