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Cost per Request
The fully-loaded infrastructure cost of serving one request, and the unit that makes architectural cost decisions comparable.
Managed vs Self-Managed
Trading control, portability and unit cost against the operational burden of running the thing yourself.
Modular Monolith
A single deployable unit internally partitioned into modules with enforced boundaries, explicit interfaces and no shared internal state.
Pod
The smallest deployable unit in Kubernetes — one or more containers that share a network namespace, storage volumes and a lifecycle, scheduled together on one node.
Replatform
Migrating an application largely as-is while making targeted changes to exploit the target platform — usually the best return per unit of effort.
Sidecar
Deploying a helper process alongside the main application in the same unit, to supply cross-cutting behaviour without changing the application.
Subnet
A subdivision of a network's address range, used as the unit of routing and, in cloud, of availability-zone placement.
Test Pyramid
A distribution of tests weighted towards many fast unit tests, fewer integration tests, and very few slow end-to-end tests.
Throughput
The rate of work a system completes per unit of time — and a quantity that trades against latency rather than tracking it.
Total Cost of Ownership
The full lifetime cost of a capability, including the people, operations, upgrades and exit that a licence comparison leaves out.
Unit Economics
Cost per request, per tenant, per transaction — the actionable number.
Availability Zones
The unit of correlated physical failure, and what zones do not protect against.
Cost & FinOps
General material on the economics of an architecture.
Cost per Request
Fully-loaded per-unit cost, including the lines usually left out.
First-Principles Reasoning
Reducing to physics, mathematics and economics, then reasoning up.
Managed vs Self-Managed
Trading control and unit cost against operational attention.
Message Formats
JSON, Protobuf, Avro — schema evolution and payload economics.
Throughput
Work completed per unit time, and why it trades against latency.