# Operational Overhead

> The ongoing effort and resource cost of deploying, running, and maintaining a system in production.

Record: `lex:operational-overhead`
Kind: quality-attribute
Layer: [Resource Core](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/resource-core.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lex-operational-overhead

## category

- [Quality Attributes](https://banes-lab.com/records/lex-category/quality-attributes.md)

## referenced-by

- [Service-Oriented Architecture](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/service-oriented-architecture.md)
- [Dead-Letter Queue](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/dead-letter-queue.md)