# Operational Overhead

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

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

Listed in [Lexicon terms](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/lexicon.md), after [Mapping Overhead](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/mapping-overhead.md) and before [Ordering](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/ordering.md).

## Category

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

## In tension with

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

## Linked from

- [Event / Messaging / Asynchronous Architecture](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-event-messaging-asynchronous-architecture.md)
- [Codebase / System Architecture Styles](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-codebase-system-architecture-styles.md)
- [The resolutions](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema/the-resolutions.md)