Terminology

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

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Term	Kind	Topic	What it is
Google Borg to Kubernetes: Learning From an Internal System Borg, Omega	case-study	Containers	Kubernetes was designed with a decade of Borg experience behind it, and its authors have been explicit about which Borg decisions they deliberately did not repeat.
Maersk and NotPetya: Recovery from a Single Surviving Copy NotPetya 2017	case-study	Backup Strategies	A destructive malware outbreak encrypted Maersk's estate globally, and the domain controllers were recovered only because one office had been offline during the attack.
Netflix: Regional Evacuation Chaos Kong, Region Failover	case-study	Multi-Region Architecture	Netflix rehearses shifting all traffic out of an entire AWS region, which is what makes the capability real rather than documented.
Slack 2021: When Autoscaling Cannot Keep Up Slack January 2021 Outage	case-study	Autoscaling	The first Monday back after the holidays produced a traffic ramp that outpaced the scaling behaviour of a managed network component, and the degradation cascaded.
Slack's Cellular Migration	case-study	Cloud Architecture	After repeated availability-zone-level incidents, Slack rebuilt its infrastructure into per-zone cells with the ability to drain traffic away from a failing zone in minutes.
Zoom's Pandemic Scale-Up	case-study	Cloud Architecture	Zoom grew from around 10 million to over 300 million daily meeting participants in roughly three months, absorbed by a hybrid architecture and a distributed media routing design.