Throughput

Kind: metric

Layer: Performance Core

Record: architecture:throughput

Severity: contextual

Scope: service, pipeline, system

Canonical: Ontology

The rate at which a system completes requests, messages or items, counted per unit of time.

Listed in Architecture principles, after Parallelism and before Latency.

Requires

• Capacity Model

Reinforces

• Scalability

Enables

• Load Handling

Conflicts with

• Bottlenecks

In tension with

• Latency
• Event Ordering
• PACELC Theorem
• Backpressure
• Code Review
• Isolation
• Event Ordering / Throughput
• PACELC Theorem / Throughput
• Backpressure / Throughput
• Code Review / Throughput
• Isolation / Throughput

Tensions

• Throughput / Latency

Violated by

• Bottlenecks

Refactored by

• Bottleneck Analysis
• Parallelism
• Horizontal Scaling

Severity

• contextual

Category

• Scalability / Performance / Optimization

Reinforced by

• Concurrency
• Fan-out/Fan-in

Linked from

• Separate, trade, or mitigate
• A concern is a component
• Causality / Ordering / Distributed Time
• Error Handling / Resilience
• Architecture Review / Evolution / Governance Artifacts
• Scalability / Performance / Optimization
• Streaming / Pipeline / Dataflow Processing
• Transactions / State / Concurrency
• Scalability / Performance / Optimization
• Severity levels
• The resolutions