Performance Budgeting

Purpose

Define performance budgets and guardrails.

Inputs to request

• Key performance metrics and baselines.
• User journey or critical paths.
• CI/CD capabilities for enforcement.

Workflow

1. Set measurable budgets for key metrics.
2. Define thresholds and monitoring hooks.
3. Plan enforcement in CI or release gates.

Output

• Performance budget proposal.

Quality bar

• Tie budgets to user impact.
• Avoid budgets that are too strict to maintain.