Optimization

Kind: activity

Layer: Performance Core

Record: architecture:optimization

Severity: contextual

Scope: code, database, system

Canonical: Ontology

The activity of changing code or configuration to reduce the cost of a bottleneck that a measurement has located.

Listed in Architecture principles, after Big O Notation and before Profiling.

Requires

• Profiling
• Bottleneck Evidence

Reinforces

• Performance Engineering

Enables

• Resource Efficiency

Conflicts with

• Premature Optimization

In tension with

• Readability/Maintainability

Tensions

• Optimization / Readability/Maintainability

Violated by

• Premature Optimization

Refactored by

• Bottleneck Analysis
• Cleanup / Simplification

Severity

• contextual

Category

• Scalability / Performance / Optimization

Reinforced by

• Compile-Time Evaluation

Linked from

• Architectural rules and principles
• Metaprogramming / Language-Oriented Architecture
• Scalability / Performance / Optimization
• Contracts / Interfaces / Compatibility
• Quality Attributes
• Scalability / Performance / Optimization
• Severity levels
• The resolutions