When a request already takes 500ms, an additional 50ms of latency is basically noise.
I guess it really just depends on what you're trying to do. I would never consider 50ms as noise. It's an accumulation of various things taking 50ms that results in your request taking 500ms in the first place, which is very slow.
I'm interested in this though. I think it's a cool experiment!
Oh yes, that is a fair point. I'm specifically talking about the type of requests that always take 500ms. Almost every HTTP request from Australia to the US takes ~500ms.
This is meant to decrease the unfixable latency, it's probably not a good way to solve app level latency issues.
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I guess it really just depends on what you're trying to do. I would never consider 50ms as noise. It's an accumulation of various things taking 50ms that results in your request taking 500ms in the first place, which is very slow.
I'm interested in this though. I think it's a cool experiment!
Oh yes, that is a fair point. I'm specifically talking about the type of requests that always take 500ms. Almost every HTTP request from Australia to the US takes ~500ms.
This is meant to decrease the unfixable latency, it's probably not a good way to solve app level latency issues.