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Performance concepts
One of the key tasks of IT Architects and solution designers is to develop
“design-for-performance” as part of the overall system design. This type of design aims to
produce a solution that meets particular performance measurements, for example, to enable
the solution or the system to deliver a particular quality of service (QoS). Therefore, system
performance can be defined as “The ability of a system to meet a particular QoS”.
However, the measure of the QoS varies depending on the type of the workload, and the role
of the person defining or measuring the QoS. Sometimes, QoS can be qualitative as opposed
to being quantitative.
The QoS can mean user ...