Search the practice set

term

Egress Path Analysis

Tracing where data physically moves in an architecture, because transfer charges follow paths that appear nowhere on the diagram.

Network & Egress Costs term

Total Cost of Ownership

The full lifetime cost of a capability, including the people, operations, upgrades and exit that a licence comparison leaves out.

Cost & FinOps term

Trade-off Analysis

Making the costs of an architectural choice explicit and comparable, rather than presenting a recommendation as if it were free.

Meta-Skills

quiz

PCI DSS assessment covers 40 systems and costs a fortune annually. How would you reduce that architecturally?

The principle Scope follows the data. Any system that stores, processes or transmits cardholder data is in scope and inherits the full control set. Reducing sco

Compliance Frameworks

topic

Licence & Vendor Costs

Per-core, per-seat and per-environment terms that shape designs.

Cost Architecture & FinOps — no content yet topic

Network & Egress Costs

Cross-zone and cross-region transfer that appears on no diagram.

2 items topic

Storage Costs

Tiering, lifecycle policies, retrieval charges and minimum durations.

Cost Architecture & FinOps — no content yet topic

Cost Allocation

Tagging enforced at provisioning, and apportioning shared costs.

Cost Architecture & FinOps — no content yet topic

Event Sourcing

Storing the change log as the system of record, and what that costs forever.

7 items topic

Multi-Cloud

Best-of-breed, portfolio and portable — three very different costs.

2 items topic

OpenTelemetry

Instrumenting once against an open standard rather than a vendor agent.

Observability — no content yet topic

Trade-off Analysis

Making costs explicit and comparable rather than asserting a preference.

The Architect's Meta-Skills — no content yet