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Visualizing system latency

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Heat maps are a unique and powerful way to visualize latency data. Explaining the results, however, is an ongoing challenge.

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        cover image Communications of the ACM
        Communications of the ACM  Volume 53, Issue 7
        July 2010
        133 pages
        ISSN:0001-0782
        EISSN:1557-7317
        DOI:10.1145/1785414
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