What it means.
Transactions Per Second (TPS) measures the processing capacity of an enterprise software system or blockchain ledger, quantifying how many discrete, fully committed requests it can execute each second under sustained load.
01DefinitionPerformance Engineering Standard
A standard measurement unit quantifying system throughput and transaction capacity per second.
Where it is used.
Monitored across both ingestion (Kafka handling 5,000+ IoT telemetry events/sec) and consensus execution (GoQuorum committing ~80–100 blockchain transactions/sec per signer pool).
Measured via continuous k6 automated load test suites validating p99 response times below 30ms.
Read it carefully.
High ingestion TPS does not equal high consensus TPS; high-frequency telemetry is decoupled from blockchain ledger commits.
- TT-SPEC-STAGING-TPS-001
- TT-SPEC-INGESTION-EXEC-001