Bottleneck Analysis

Kind: activity

Layer: Performance Core

Record: architecture:bottleneck-analysis

Severity: recommended

Scope: code path, system

Canonical: Ontology

The activity of finding the stage that limits a system's overall throughput or latency, from traces and profiles.

Listed in Architecture principles, after Benchmarking and before Resource Utilization.

Requires

• Profiling
• Metrics

Reinforces

• Optimization

Enables

• Targeted Improvement

Conflicts with

• Local Micro-Optimization

In tension with

• Distributed Complexity

Tensions

• Bottleneck Analysis / Distributed Complexity

Violated by

• Local Micro-Optimization

Refactored by

• Parallelism
• Caching

Severity

• recommended

Category

• Scalability / Performance / Optimization

Refactors

• Throughput
• Performance Engineering

Linked from

• Scalability / Performance / Optimization
• Core Vocabulary
• Scalability / Performance / Optimization
• Severity levels
• The resolutions