Why we treat performance budgets as requirements
A budget you check after launch is a report. A budget that fails the build is a requirement. The difference shows up in the product.
By Optirix Admin
Most teams measure performance after they ship. The numbers arrive, someone files a ticket, and the ticket competes with feature work it will usually lose.
Make it a gate
We set a budget per route before design starts, and the build fails when a change blows it. That converts an argument about priorities into a normal engineering constraint, handled at the moment it is cheapest to fix.
What it costs
Occasionally a feature has to be redesigned to fit. That is the point. The alternative is discovering the same trade-off later, with more code depending on the wrong answer.
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