# Process and culture
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| AOSPERF06: How do you balance throughput and latency through bulk request size? | 
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 Determining the optimal bulk request size for data ingestion in OpenSearch involves balancing factors such as network latency, indexing rate, document size, batching frequency, refresh intervals, and buffer size. 

**Topics**
+ [AOSPERF06-BP01 Identify index refresh controls for optimal ingestion performance](aosperf06-bp01.md)
+ [AOSPERF06-BP02 Evaluate bulk request size](aosperf06-bp02.md)
+ [AOSPERF06-BP03 Implement HTTP compression](aosperf06-bp03.md)
+ [AOSPERF06-BP04 Evaluate `filter_path` criteria](aosperf06-bp04.md)