# Coordination Overhead

> The additional cost incurred to synchronize and coordinate concurrent or distributed units of work.

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

Listed in [Lexicon terms](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/lexicon.md), after [Architecture Compliance](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/architecture-compliance.md) and before [Data Integrity](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/data-integrity.md).

## Category

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

## In tension with

- [Parallelism](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/parallelism.md)
- [Fan-out/Fan-in](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/fan-out-fan-in.md)
- [Parallelism / Coordination Overhead](https://banes-lab.com/records/tension/coordination-overhead-parallelism.md)
- [Fan-out/Fan-in / Coordination Overhead](https://banes-lab.com/records/tension/coordination-overhead-fan-out-fan-in.md)

## Linked from

- [Scalability / Performance / Optimization](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-scalability-performance-optimization.md)
- [Streaming / Pipeline / Dataflow Processing](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-streaming-pipeline-dataflow-processing.md)
- [The resolutions](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema/the-resolutions.md)