Terminology

454 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.

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Kind Any concept166 practice107 pattern93 case-study26 tool26 protocol22 metric14

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Term	Kind	Topic	What it is
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.