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Throughput

Section titled “Throughput”

Throughput is the amount of useful work a system completes during a unit of time, such as requests per second or records per minute.

Higher throughput can come from batching, parallelism, or more capacity. Those changes can also increase queueing and per-item latency.

Throughput is different from latency. Measure both when evaluating a performance change.

Used in DKKB

Latency vs throughputDistinguish how long one operation takes from how much work a system completes over time, because optimizing one can worsen the other.
Latency vs throughputDistinguish how long one operation takes from how much work a system completes over time, because optimizing one can worsen the other.