# PERF 5. How do your organizational practices and culture contribute to performance efficiency in your workload?
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 When architecting workloads, there are principles and practices that you can adopt to help you better run efficient high-performing cloud workloads. To adopt a culture that fosters performance efficiency of cloud workloads, consider these key principles and practices: 

**Topics**
+ [PERF05-BP01 Establish key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure workload health and performance](perf_process_culture_establish_key_performance_indicators.md)
+ [PERF05-BP02 Use monitoring solutions to understand the areas where performance is most critical](perf_process_culture_use_monitoring_solutions.md)
+ [PERF05-BP03 Define a process to improve workload performance](perf_process_culture_workload_performance.md)
+ [PERF05-BP04 Load test your workload](perf_process_culture_load_test.md)
+ [PERF05-BP05 Use automation to proactively remediate performance-related issues](perf_process_culture_automation_remediate_issues.md)
+ [PERF05-BP06 Keep your workload and services up-to-date](perf_process_culture_keep_workload_and_services_up_to_date.md)
+ [PERF05-BP07 Review metrics at regular intervals](perf_process_culture_review_metrics.md)