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.

All areas454 Architecture Fundamentals16 Distributed Systems73 Data Architecture71 Cloud Architecture55 Networking13 API & Integration Architecture17 Reliability & Resilience16 Observability14 Performance & Capacity Engineering13 Security Architecture50 Cost Architecture & FinOps12 Business Architecture9 Architecture Communication8 Enterprise Architecture8 Legacy Modernization11 AI-Era Architecture15 Software Architecture & Engineering19 Architecture Patterns15 Architecture Decision-Making11 The Architect's Meta-Skills8

Kind Any concept166 practice107 pattern93 case-study26 tool26 protocol22 metric14

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Term	Kind	Topic	What it is
Airbnb's Service-Oriented Migration	case-study	Legacy Modernization	Airbnb decomposed a large Rails monolith by first extracting a unified data-access layer, so that services were built on owned data rather than on shared database tables.
eBay's Architectural Generations	case-study	Legacy Modernization	eBay rewrote its core platform several times across its first decade, each time because the previous generation had hit a limit that could not be tuned away.