Making sense of API response times

Mathias Hansen, co-founder of Geocodio, on how they analyze their API response times: For the longest time, we focused on average response times. It is a quick and simple metric that you can quickly break down by API endpoint and time window. […] While measuring average response time have their place they can also be …

Trending at Instagram

We identified three main elements of a good trend: Popularity – the trend should be of interest to many people in our community. Novelty – the trend should be about something new. People were not posting about it before, or at least not with the same intensity. Timeliness – the trend should surface on Instagram …