📊 Engineering & System Performance Metrics
Scalable Event-Driven Ride-Sharing Platform
This document defines the quantifiable engineering KPIs used to evaluate system health, scalability, and ML/dispatch performance.
🚀 1. System Throughput Metrics
Metric
Description
Target
Driver Location Events / sec
Number of GPS updates processed by the event bus
5,000+
Ride Requests / sec
Number of concurrent rider requests
1,000+
Dispatch Allocation Latency
Time from ride request → driver assignment
< 50 ms
Event Bus Latency
Kafka-style event propagation
< 10 ms
🧠 2. Machine Learning / Matching Metrics
Metric
Description
Target
Matching Accuracy
Driver chosen is truly the nearest available
95%+
ETA Prediction Error
Avg difference between predicted vs actual
< 10%
Surge Detection Speed
Time to detect abnormal demand spikes
< 2 seconds
🗺 3. Geospatial Data Metrics
Metric
Description
Target
Driver Location Freshness
Age of last GPS ping
< 2 seconds
H3 Cell Mapping Latency
Time to compute hex cell → service region
< 1 ms
Nearby Driver Lookup
Query driver store for availability
< 5 ms
🧩 4. Microservice Reliability Metrics
Metric
Description
Target
Service Uptime
Availability of all services
99.9%
Error Rate
Failed requests
< 0.01%
Circuit Breaker Trips
Fault tolerance activations
< 5 per day
Backpressure Handling
Queue build-up under traffic spikes
Auto-scale within 3 seconds
🧱 5. Infrastructure & DevOps Metrics
Metric
Description
Target
Container Launch Time
Docker/K8s spin-up
< 2 seconds
Auto-scaling Reaction
Ability to scale microservices
< 8 seconds
CI/CD Pipeline Time
Build → test → deploy
< 90 seconds
API Cold Start
First request after idle
< 40 ms
Metric
Description
Target
Failed Auth Attempts
Unexpected login attempts
< 0.1%
Token Validation Time
JWT verification
< 2 ms
PII Encryption Overhead
Performance penalty
< 5%
📞 7. User Experience Metrics
Metric
Description
Target
Rider Request Response
Time to view ETA after request
< 80 ms
Cancellation Rate
Canceled rides
< 5%
Driver Acceptance Rate
Drivers accepting assigned rides
> 90%
This project demonstrates Big-Tech-grade metrics , covering:
Dispatch performance
Real-time geospatial processing
Event-driven microservices
Scalability & fault tolerance
User experience KPIs
These metrics elevate the repo to L5/L6 system-design readiness .