8.5Integrating with the Full Performance Pipeline

The performance budget checks are one stage of a larger performance strategy:

  Developer Commits Code
           |
           v
  +------------------+
  | Build-Time       |   <-- Bundle size check, dependency audit
  | Budget (< 1 min) |       Runs on every PR
  +--------+---------+
           |
           v
  +------------------+
  | Lighthouse CI    |   <-- Core Web Vitals, accessibility, SEO
  | (2-5 min)        |       Runs on every PR
  +--------+---------+
           |
           v
  +------------------+
  | API Performance  |   <-- k6 endpoint latency budgets
  | Budget (2-3 min) |       Runs on merge to main
  +--------+---------+
           |
           v
  +------------------+
  | Staging Load     |   <-- Full k6 load test with production traffic model
  | Test (15-30 min) |       Runs before production deployment
  +--------+---------+
           |
           v
  +------------------+
  | Production       |   <-- Canary + RUM validation
  | Validation       |       Continuous after deployment
  +------------------+