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Benchmark a runtime with weighted production traffic

The usual HTTP benchmark measures a server returning a fixed string. Instead, build one image per runtime, send 10 percent of real traffic to each for a day, and compare p99, memory and, most of all, error rate. A runtime that's 30 percent faster but mangles one response in ten thousand isn't actually faster.

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