Throughput

Throughput is the number of requests or operations a system completes per second — its total capacity under load.

Diagram

  Server A: 1 req at 10ms each  → 100 req/s throughput
  Server B: 1 req at 50ms each  →  20 req/s throughput
  
  4× Server A behind load balancer → ~400 req/s total throughput

In Depth

Throughput measures how many operations a system can complete per unit of time — typically requests per second (req/s) or transactions per second (TPS).

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