# [[Throughput]] %% date:: [[2022-09-29]], [[2024-01-05]] Parent:: [[Performance|Application Performance]] Friend:: [[Latency]] %% # [[Throughput]] Throughput is the rate at which a system can process a task. In [[Performance|Application Performance]], throughput can be used to refer to a variety of things. - Network throughput or [[Network bandwidth|bandwidth]] is a measure of how much traffic a network can withstand at any given point of time. - Test throughput refers to the amount of load (sometimes measured in requests per second) the test is *generating* against another server. - Database throughput might refer to how many CRUD operations a database can handle.