Performance and Scalability
Software systems grow with business and changing environments manifested in higher complexity, more diverse user demands, and heavier workloads. The ability to maintain high performance and scale under growth becomes critical. Performance refers to how quickly a system can process and respond to requests, while scalability describes a system’s capacity to handle a higher volume of traffic and usage over time.
Poor performance can lead to frustrating user experiences, lost productivity, and even complete system failures. And systems that can’t scale to meet rising demands will quickly become overwhelmed and unusable. Therefore, ensuring optimal performance and scalability is a key challenge for any software engineering project.
In this chapter, we’ll explore the core concepts and principles of performance engineering and scalable system design. We’ll discuss common performance bottlenecks and mitigation strategies, review...
