Throughput

Definitions

1. The amount of work a system can handle per unit of time — requests per second, transactions per minute, data processed per hour. Not the same as latency: you can have high throughput with high latency (a pipeline) or low latency with low throughput (a garden hose).

   In plain English: How much work a system can handle in a given amount of time — like measuring how many cars can pass through a toll booth per hour.

Related Terms

• Latency
• tail latency
• p-value
• Optimization
• Order of Magnitude
• Progressive Loading
• Short Circuit
• Running Hot
• API Pagination
• Capacity Planning
• Compute Resource