Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know
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Latency is the time interval between initiating a query, transmission, or process, and receiving or detecting the results, often given as an average value over a large number of events.
I’m sure that the most of the developers don’t care about latency these days. It’s fair behavior because of the software itself. To be honest, there are no high load, no real-time, no network extensive operations or even the huge amount of customers. Even so, it always helpful to know how latency can affect your applications.
Below is a cheat sheet of most frequent latency numbers every programmer “should know” (just know that they exist):