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Hi, I'm the author of the post. Our 95% latency is just shy of 10ms, and max latency around 100ms. Our monitoring tool pre-calculates the percentiles, so I don't have 99% or 99.99%, but my guess is that they're under or around 50ms. Too much more than that and we'd be hearing from our partners about timeout rates. We haven't thoroughly profiled the difference between "most" and "all" in terms of latency sources, but I'd guess that GC pauses account for some of it, and some requests are simply much more expensive for us to process than others.


Hi, work for one of the partners. From what I can tell, your account manager should be able to get you this info, including 99 percentile, if you are interested. This is for round trip from our point of view of course.

Spot checking, you've done better than you think :)

Exciting to see python implementation doing this!


That's always good to hear :) Drop me a line if you want to get in touch.


Nice one. Yes the GC pauses are usually the root cause of higher p99+ latency. Anyways, the 10ms-100ms range is pretty amazing by itself. With such a huge throughput it is hard to measure latency accurately you are kind of forced to use sampling, but it can be a good representation of reality still.




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