Architecture Patterns
Nonfunctional Requirements: Latency, Percentiles, and SLAs
Latency percentiles tell you how your slowest users experience your system - and that is what actually matters, not the average.
LatencyPercentiles (p50, p90, p95, p99)Service Level Agreement (SLA)ThroughputAvailabilityTail LatencyCache MissLoad BalancingRedundancyHistograms (for latency monitoring)
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Nonfunctional Requirements: Latency, Percentiles, and SLAs - System Design Diagram
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