"The second problem with the architecture - and of many other architectures too - is that it is perceived to be a tradeoff between latency and throughput; in this case that throughput is increased at the cost of some latency"
"I sent an email to my boss's boss's boss asking whether he could perhaps reassign the budget from one person doing one of their offsite all day meetings on global architecture at that 5-star hotel with the 3-course luncheon, to a JavaOne training budget"
"Components of application response time are: CPU time (time processing the request); Wait time (time waiting for a resource to become available); Suspension time (time when the system suspended execution to do some non-application processing, e.g. GC)."
