Choose an explicit strategy
The runtime default is
load-balanced. Name the strategy explicitly during a
trial so your results describe the route you actually tested. The
routing guide covers eligibility, health tiers, and the
request deadline.
Measure the application path
Choose one read method and a representative request mix. Compare direct provider and Lasso routes from the same client regions. Record successful responses, p50/p95/p99 end-to-end latency, error categories, provider choice, head freshness, and upstream request volume. Repeat during a controlled provider failure or throttle event. A low mean upstream latency alone does not show that the app’s tail latency improved. Use the dashboard for live provider state and opt-in request metadata for available per-request timing and executing-channel fields. Keep missing fields unknown; candidate order alone does not prove which provider answered. The routing-overhead benchmark measured 0.70–1.08 ms added p95 latency in five short, isolated synthetic HTTP trials at 10,000 requests per second on a four-CPU Lasso profile. That is routing-engine overhead, not hosted capacity or Internet/provider latency. Your workload trial supplies the application result. If several reads must observe one state, use one block hash across those calls. If successivelatest results must avoid a backwards
block number, evaluate block regression protection
separately. Neither strategy selection nor block policy guarantees finality.