HFT CORE SYSTEMS

Histograms and tails, not averages

Lesson 05 of 96Phase 01: Measurement before optimization
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Learning objectives

What you should understand

  1. Read distributions beyond mean and median
  2. Select histogram ranges without hiding outliers
  3. Explain p99, p99.9 and coordinated omission

Lab

Hands-on exercise

Plot two workloads with the same mean but radically different tail behavior.

Deliverable

Evidence of completion

An annotated latency histogram with percentile table and outlier accounting.

Prerequisite
EP 04

Phase 01

Measurement before optimization

Full curriculum