
Designing Data-Intensive Applications – Scalability
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The Average Is Almost Never the Number You Want to Use
The average is almost never the number you want to use, right? Because it's so easily skewed like using example Amazon again, the average salary for someone at Amazon is probably really good. So something like the percentile or the median is going to be much more useful to you. Devin Goble: I actually wanted to give a shout out to Devin Goble in Slack channel as well. Like we talked about last episode of Simeon on hardware failures and we were talking about like 11,3 nines of response time. And now do you even pinpoint what might be an environmental thing that could be between one person here and 10,000 people there? There's so many variables that're
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