Require that every API define performance budgets, setting explicit targets for latency, throughput, and error rates that it commits to holding. I expect these budgets to be measured continuously and treated as a contract the team defends, not an aspiration it mentions once. Performance budgets give consumers a dependable basis for their own architecture and give providers an early warning when a change degrades the experience. Without stated budgets, performance erodes quietly until it becomes an incident, so I hold defined budgets as a production requirement.
Performance Budgets Defined
Strategies
APIs Are Fast and Efficient
I want our APIs to be fast and efficient by design, because performance is a feature that consumers feel on every single call. That means a deliberate caching strategy so we are not recomputing or ...
Experiences
Performance
Performance is the experience of how fast and consistently an API responds under real-world conditions. Latency, throughput, and predictability directly shape how consumers perceive an API and whet...
Reliability
If an API isn’t reliable, consumers will eventually look for alternatives. Reliability starts with the platform and infrastructure where the API is deployed, but it also depends heavily on the pace...
Lifecycle
speed Performance Production
Performance is a feature. Latency, throughput, and consistency directly shape how consumers experience an API and whether they keep using it. I measure performance continuously so that regressions ...
