Monitoring
The Ergodicity Trap: Why Your Path Matters More Than the Average PDF
- Stefano
- Backend , Statistics , Philosophy
- 01 Jan, 2026
Why thinking in averages can kill---from drowning statisticians to crashed servers. How ergodicity (or its absence) explains why your dashboard lies, your capacity planning fails, and why paths...
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When 'Average' is not enough
- Stefano
- Backend , Observability
- 26 Dec, 2025
How we used the Poisson distribution's variance-to-mean ratio to diagnose bursty traffic that standard Prometheus dashboards couldn't see, and fixed latency spikes without scaling up.
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