Also recommend Jeff Dean's tech talk Building Software Systems At Google and Lessons Learned which references those latency numbers. Slides: http://research.go

Also recommend Jeff Dean's tech talk Building Software Systems At Google and Lessons Learned which references those latency numbers. Slides: http://research.google.com/people/jeff/Stanford-DL-Nov-2010.pdf http://research.google.com/people/jeff/Stanford-DL-Nov-2010.... Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=modXC5IWTJI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=modXC5IWTJI Also, a previous thread on latency numbers: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4047623 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4047623