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title: "Top System Design Performance Metrics"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/top-system-design-performance-metrics-tgpn8gxf8
source_url: https://newsletter.systemdesigncodex.com/p/top-system-design-performance-metrics
type: article
source: "System Design Codex"
published: 2026-07-14T08:46:46.129Z
updated: 2026-07-14T20:17:32.459Z
tags: ["performance", "career", "distributed-systems"]
reading_time: 5
upvotes: 16
comments: 0
language: en
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# Top System Design Performance Metrics

**[System Design Codex](https://daily.dev/sources/systemdesigncodex)** · 5 min read · 16 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

A concise overview of five essential system design performance metrics: availability (measured in 'nines'), throughput (RPS/QPS/TPS), latency (propagation, processing, RTT), scalability (vertical vs. horizontal), and redundancy (active-passive vs. active-active). Each metric is explained with practical examples, common measurement approaches, and strategies to improve it.

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