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Cascaded Lag: The Cumulative Impact of Latency on Applications and User Experience

Kentik

Let’s consider the database scenario for now, but this scenario can be applied at any tier component: application, service mesh, API gateway, authentication, Kubernetes, network backbone, WAN, LAN, switch, or firewall, etc. Generally we had a second rule, where all transactions needed to be completed < 4 seconds (100%).