Designing Data intensive Application¶

• Describing Performance
  • When you increase a load parameter and keep the system resources (CPU, mem‐ ory, network bandwidth, etc.) unchanged, how is the performance of your system affected?
  • When you increase a load parameter, how much do you need to increase the resources if you want to keep performance unchanged?

Terms:

• throughput—the number of records we can process per second
• response time—the time between a client sending a request and receiving a response.
• the mean is not a very good metric if you want to know your “typi‐ cal” response time, because it doesn’t tell you how many users actually experienced that delay.
• 50 percentile → Median
• there is no such thing as a generic, one-size-fits-all scalable architecture. Depends Upon:
  • volume of reads,
  • the volume of writes,
  • the volume of data to store,
  • the complexity of the data,
  • the response time requirements,
  • the access patterns, or (usually) some mixture of all of these plus many more issues.
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