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Re:Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know by preinheimer on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @09:36AM (#17917775)
If ping times are your jam, we've collected a few between major cities across the globe: https://wondernetwork.com/pings
Re:Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know by Iem3ohvi on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @09:44AM (#17917853)
Averages are not particularly interesting. CDFs or violin graphs are since hundreds of requests to load a site can turn your 99th percentile into what the user actually experiences.

Edit: I just noticed that clicking on it shows box plots. Good enough!

Re:Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know by preinheimer on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @10:08AM (#17918081)
Thanks!

We've got all of our data going back years in AWS Athena, we're just waiting to have time to do something fun with it.

Re:Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know by krn on Thursday September 06, 2018 @02:35AM (#17924296)
Thanks for this tool. It was extremely helpful in trying to find the best locations for data-centers across the world. Who knew, that the presence in New York, London, and Singapore alone is enough to be within 100ms reach for 80% of the world's population.
Re:Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know by ape4 on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @09:38AM (#17917796)
Cool. I don't think the 3 decimal places are significant.