Stop Using “Real Time” Wrong

It has nothing to do with latency and it’s making your systems more complicated.

I’m fighting this ongoing war with the phrase “real time” at work. I want to eliminate it from our vocabulary — to the point where I periodically fantasize about standing up a Slack bot that auto replies to the phrase “real time” with “did you mean to define a clear SLO?”

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Author of Kill It with Fire Manage Aging Computer Systems (and Future Proof Modern Ones)

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