I’m working from our New York office this week, so I thought I’d try to pull together a UA post that’s NY-themed. Some of these might be a bit of a stretch, but bear with me:

This is what things look like when sysops does testing by artificially introducing 1ms of latency for periods of time…but it also looks a bit like a (super- regular) skyline. Next up:

This one (from Richard Waid) is a little abstract, but when looked at the right way I kinda see the subway. Another one I love:

Entitled “The Donkey Kong Graph” by Nick Berry, I have no idea what’s actually going on in this one…but it includes Mario (an Italian plumber from NYC, if I’m not mistaken). …and finally:

I should’ve kept the legend on here. The blue-ish is 2xx responses, the purple-ish is 5xx responses. It demonstrates how quickly everything can change…

how quickly things can get pretty strange. “How quickly?” you ask? Well…in a New York minute, of course.