Technical notes
Software performance,
in practice.
Practical thinking about software performance, from the shape of a latency distribution to the limits of adding more infrastructure.
LATENCY / 5 MIN READ
Your average latency looks fine. Why are users still waiting?
Understand the tail, choose useful measurements, and investigate the requests an average can hide.
Read the article SCALABILITY / 5 MIN READBefore adding servers: finding the bottleneck that limits growth.
A practical sequence for finding your system’s limiting resource before buying more capacity.
Read the article