Performance

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Discussion

Performance refers to the ability of a Qualified Node or governed function to meet defined timing, throughput, latency, capacity, and service-level expectations. In the Governed Node Service Market, Performance supports timely governed processing, provider comparison, service-level review, Competitive Substitution, and operational planning.

Performance matters because governed work may occur within transaction-processing, release, settlement-support, audit, or operational recovery windows. A high-performing Node has architectural value only when it satisfies the applicable governed function, policy, evidence, residency, sovereignty, security, and non-functional obligations.

Performance does not justify bypassing the required governed work. A faster Node is not an acceptable substitute if it omits required evidence, weakens controls, violates residency constraints, or fails to meet qualification criteria.

Definition

ability of a Qualified Node or governed function to satisfy defined timing, throughput, latency, capacity, and service-level expectations

Source

Financial Systems Archetype, Part 7: Governed Node Service Market

Note

Performance supports timely, governed processing.

Performance expectations depend on the governed function, deployment context, jurisdictional constraints, workload, service-level rules, and evidence obligations.

Performance does not override policy, residency, sovereignty, security, qualification, or evidence obligations.

Performance differs from Scalability. Performance concerns how a Qualified Node or governed function satisfies defined timing, throughput, latency, capacity, and service-level expectations under stated conditions. Scalability concerns the ability of the market or deployment to support increased numbers of participants, Nodes, governed functions, work events, evidence references, compensation claims, jurisdictions, and settlement instructions.

Example

A policy evaluation Node returns decisions within the required service-level interval for the applicable class of FX transaction.