Chapter 12. interMedia Application Performance

Identify Performance Needs and Goals

One of the first things that is necessary when planning the performance of a system is to identify what the performance needs are. It is also desirable to identify what the performance goals are. It is difficult to reach goals when they do not exist.

Performance does not typically fall into one category, like response time. Performance may be an issue in many other areas of your media database application. Performance goals may include the following issues:

  • User response time

  • Time to backup the data

  • Time to restore operations after a failure

  • Amount of time to load data

Depending on your application, it is important to identify strategies to reach your performance goals. ...

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