- Throughput is the number of actions executed or results produced per unit of time (second or minute).
- This is measured in units of whatever is being produced (cars, motorcycles, I/O samples, memory words, iterations) per unit of time.
| Terminology | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| QPS - Queries per Second | Database | The number of queries, a database server can handle in 1 sec. Read more |
| TPS - Transactions per Second | App/Service | The TPS includes a message entry and a message, plus a user database access. - A transaction might have multiple requests. - Hence, RPS is the subset of TPS. |
| RPS - Requests per Second | App/Service | The number of requests, an app server can handle in 1 sec. |
| IOPS | Database | IOPS are a unit of measure representing input/output operations per second. - The operations are measured in KiB, and the underlying drive technology determines the maximum amount of data that a volume type counts as a single I/O. |
- Caching
- Identify Bottlenecks
- More threads, instances
- Spike Management