Requests Per Second - CI/CD Glossary Definition
Requests per second (RPS, sometimes QPS for queries) is throughput expressed as the number of requests a service handles each second, a primary axis of load-test results.
Reading the number
RPS is only meaningful alongside the response-time distribution: a service can sustain high RPS while tail latency quietly climbs, so report both together.
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