# Performance Engineering / Maintainability

> "performance-engineering" (performance-core layer) is traded against "Maintainability" (human-factors layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Maintainability" and choosing an explicit operating point.

Record: `tension:maintainability-performance-engineering`
Kind: tension
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema#tension-maintainability-performance-engineering

## tensions-with

- [Performance Engineering](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/performance-engineering.md)
- [Maintainability](https://banes-lab.com/records/lex/maintainability.md)