# Latency Requirement Clarity

> The requirement that a workload's latency and freshness needs be made explicit before a processing model is chosen.

Record: `lex:latency-requirement-clarity`
Kind: constraint
Layer: [Execution Core](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/execution-core.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lex-latency-requirement-clarity

## category

- [Streaming / Pipeline / Dataflow Processing](https://banes-lab.com/records/lex-category/streaming-pipeline-dataflow-processing.md)

## referenced-by

- [Batch-vs-Stream](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/batch-vs-stream.md)