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Concept for the systematic measurement of performance and reliability of software, hardware and processes.
Benchmarking is the systematic measurement and analysis of the performance of software, hardware, or processes under reproducible conditions. It provides quantitative comparisons, identification of bottlenecks and baselines for optimisation. Results inform architecture, technology and capacity decisions and guide continuous performance improvements. Methodically it requires defined metrics and representative workloads.
Measures response times; relevant percentiles show worst-case behavior.
Indicates how many operations a system processes per time unit.
Shows resource usage of infrastructure during tests.
A company ran benchmarks to compare write throughput and latency of two DB engines and selected the suitable engine.
Benchmarks identified render-path bottlenecks; targeted optimizations improved TTFB and time-to-interactive.
Load tests showed a CPU limit under increasing traffic, prompting an architectural change and horizontal scaling.
Define goals and KPIs, set acceptable thresholds
Build representative workloads and test environment
Create measurement scripts, automate and integrate into CI
Run measurements, collect and evaluate data
Document results, update baselines and derive actions