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Percentiles don’t work: Analyzing the distribution of response times for web services

Adrian Cockcroft

> system.time(wait1 <- normalmixEM(waiting, mu=c(50,80), lambda=.5, > system.time(wait1 <- normalmixEM(waiting, mu=c(50,80), lambda=.5, Changes in behavior of the system from minute to minute is going to change the height of each peak, as the workload mix and cache hit rates change.

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Revisiting “Serverless Architectures”

The Symphonia

I was a little restricted in my thinking the first time around and I’ve come to see FaaS as something not quite stateless, since caching state in a Lambda instance that might stick around for 5 hours is a perfectly reasonable idea. Lambda has configuration now and it has reserved capacity to help you avoid DoS’ing yourself.