Intro
- Databases
- Caches
- Search indexes
- Batch processing
Reliability
Scalability
Describing load
Load parameters can be described as, depending on the architecture of your system:
- requests per second to a web server
- ratio of reads to writes in a database
- the hit rate on a cache
Response times distribution
- mean (average)
- median (p50)
- 99th percentile (p99)