Performance Engineering

Kind: activity

Layer: Performance Core

Aliases: Evidence-Based Optimization

Record: architecture:performance-engineering

Severity: recommended

Scope: codebase, service, system

Canonical: Ontology

The practice of setting performance budgets, measuring against a representative workload and changing code only where a measurement points.

Listed in Architecture principles, after Latency and before Algorithmic Efficiency.

Requires

• Profiling
• Benchmarking

Reinforces

• Scalability
• Resource Efficiency

Conflicts with

• Guess-Based Optimization

In tension with

• Maintainability

Tensions

• Performance Engineering / Maintainability

Contracts

• Performance Core

Violated by

• Guess-Based Optimization

Refactored by

• Profiling
• Bottleneck Analysis
• Benchmarking

Severity

• recommended

Category

• Scalability / Performance / Optimization

Reinforced by

• Latency
• Optimization
• Resource Utilization

Linked from

• Scalability / Performance / Optimization
• Quality Attributes
• Scalability / Performance / Optimization
• Architectural Clusters
• Severity levels
• The resolutions