Trace Analysis Patterns (Part 103)
Sometimes we have a uniform stream of messages that belong to some Activity Region, Thread of Activity, or Adjoint Thread of Activity. We can use micro-Discontinuities to structure that message stream into groups of actions, for example, Macrofunctions, especially if semantics of trace messages is not yet fully clear to us. This may also help us to recognize Visitor trace. Originally we wanted to call this pattern Micro Delays, but, after recognizing that such delays only make sense for one activity (since there can be too many of them in the overall log), we named this pattern Punctuated Activity. Usually such delays are small compare to Timeouts and belong to Silent Messages.
- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org + TraceAnalysis.org -