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Designing Data-Intensive Applications – Scalability

Coding Blocks

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The Load Parameters Are a Big Part of Your Performance Numbers

It's very important to note that the load parameters are a big part of your performance numbers. You can't really express performance numbers in a meaningful way without also including load parameters. So it doesn't make sense to say, oh, my page load time is 200 milliseconds when we have X number of users or X number of queries and otherwise. If you don't know how many concurrent hits you're currently getting, then what does that number really mean? Right?" "We weren't doing this in a lab environment. Like, you know, like, let's not be too mean to ourselves here"

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