Throughput and Latency
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Why are throughput and latency considered fundamental metrics in distributed systems?
Why is latency often more critical for user experience than throughput?
Why is throughput critical for internet-scale systems?
Why do throughput and latency often conflict with each other?
Why does system overload dramatically increase latency?
Why is tail latency more important than average latency in distributed systems?
Why does parallelism improve throughput in distributed systems?
Why does caching significantly reduce latency in distributed systems?
Why is observability critical for monitoring throughput and latency?
What are the major trade-offs between throughput and latency in distributed systems?