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Feb 1, 2016

Why Percentiles Don't Work the Way you Think →

This blog post explains how you might have the wrong idea™ about percentiles, the degree of the mistake (it depends), and what you can do instead.

I used to work with a monitoring system that produced banded metrics, but didn't realize they were as robust to scaling and other manipulations as they are.

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H. Parker Shelton

I'm just an ordinary thirty-something who's had some extraordinary opportunities. I graduated from Johns Hopkins University, work for Microsoft in Silicon Valley, code websites and applications, take the occasional photograph, and keep a constant eye on current events, politics, and technology. This blog is the best of what catches that eye.

 
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