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Throughput

The amount of data or number of requests processed by a system within a given time period.

Definition

The amount of data or number of requests processed by a system within a given time period.

Use case

Scaling Kafka topics to achieve a target throughput of 50,000 processed events per second.

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Throughput

Wikipedia · Article · link checked 2026-10-16

How much work a system finishes per second, and what limits it.

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