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2185 terms, tools, patterns and metrics an architect is expected to use precisely. Each one gets a short explanation of what it is, and — where it matters — what it is commonly confused with. Search filters as you type; the column headers sort.

All areas2185 Architecture Fundamentals77 Distributed Systems107 Data Architecture110 Cloud Architecture89 Networking88 API & Integration Architecture82 Reliability & Resilience75 Observability70 Performance & Capacity Engineering72 Security Architecture81 Cost Architecture & FinOps66 Business Architecture67 Architecture Communication67 Enterprise Architecture66 Legacy Modernization66 AI-Era Architecture69 Software Architecture & Engineering71 Architecture Patterns71 Architecture Decision-Making63 The Architect's Meta-Skills61 Delivery & Release Engineering66 Platform Engineering & Developer Experience70 Testing & Quality Architecture66 Data Platform Architecture64 Streaming & Real-Time Data69 Data Governance & Semantics69 Frontend & Experience Architecture66 Edge, Mobile & IoT68 Regulatory & Data Protection Architecture65 Assurance, Audit & Model Risk64
Kind Any concept785 practice729 pattern362 metric125 case-study77 tool62 protocol45

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Term Kind Topic What it is
AWS: Shuffle Sharding Shuffle Sharding, Virtual Sharding case-study Cell-Based Architecture Assigning each customer a random subset of workers rather than a fixed shard, so that one abusive tenant affects almost nobody else.
Prime Video's Move Back to a Monolith Prime Video VQA Rearchitecture case-study Architecture Patterns Amazon Prime Video consolidated a serverless, distributed audio/video monitoring service into a single process and reported a 90% cost reduction — the most-cited example of microservices being the wrong tool.
Shopify's Pods and Modular Monolith case-study Architecture Patterns Shopify handles Black Friday scale with isolated pods — complete stacks each serving a subset of merchants — while keeping the application itself a deliberately modular monolith.
Twitter Timelines: Fan-Out on Write, Except for Celebrities Timeline Fan-Out, Hybrid Fan-Out case-study Materialized Views Precomputing every user's timeline at write time is fast to read and impossible for accounts with millions of followers, so the two approaches are combined.