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Latency and Performance

You tap "Pay" in a shopping app. Nothing happens for three seconds. You are not sure the payment worked, so you tap again. Now you worry that you paid twice.

The app did not crash. It was only slow. For the user, that can feel almost as bad as an error.

This lesson answers three questions. How do we measure how fast a system is? Where does the time in a request go? And what can we change to make it faster?

Latency, Throughput, and Performance

Latency is the time between sending a request and receiving the response. It is usually measured in milliseconds (ms)

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AnupamMisra

AnupamMisra

· 5 months ago

I think another factor which affects performance, is right sizing of resources - conn. pools, pod resources, etc.

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saps-hideous0l

· 2 years ago

Is IP Hash and Consistent Hashing the same? Since IP hash is mentioned in the load balancing section and here the listed algorithms contains Consistent Hashing....

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