Software Design: Tidy First?

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Pattern: You are monitoring a system & feel like you’re missing something.

Transformation: Increase your sampling rate.

Observing a system is a tradeoff between the cost of observation, the accuracy of observation. If you feel like you’re missing something, think about the ratio of the duration of events of interest to the frequency of sampling.

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