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In many applications it is common to measure the time it takes to handle some event. Web applications pay close attention to this, to ensure each user’s request is replied to in a timely manner. To view in aggregate, many would just measure the mean response time. Which is easily calculated by summing up the total time to handle all requests, divided by the number of request. This average latency metric, however can be very misleading as it does not show the worst case behaviour. For example, th...