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Properly Understanding Latency is Hard — What We Learned When We Did it Correctly

Optimizely’s Brian Taylor applies lessons of Gil Tene’s coordinated omission talk to understand the surprising sources of latency found in their data pipeline.

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Brian Taylor, Principle Software Engineer at Optimizely

Brian has building high throughput latency sensitive systems for 18 years. Somewhere in there he took a career holiday and pretended to be a data scientist. Now he is the technical lead for the Optimizely Data Platform.