Building Enterprise JavaScript Applications

High throughput

Throughput is a measure of the number of requests that can be fulfilled in a given time interval.

The throughput of a system depends on several factors:

• Network Latency: The amount of time it takes for the message to get from the client to our application, as well as between different components of the application
• Performance: The computation speed of the program itself
• Parallelism: Whether requests can be processed in parallel

We can increase throughput using the following strategies:

• Deploying our application geographically close to the client: Generally, this reduces the number of hops that a request must make through proxy servers, and thus reduces network latency. We should also deploy components that depend on each ...