Terminology

2205 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 areas2205 Architecture Fundamentals77 Distributed Systems107 Data Architecture110 Cloud Architecture94 Networking88 API & Integration Architecture82 Reliability & Resilience75 Observability70 Performance & Capacity Engineering72 Security Architecture86 Cost Architecture & FinOps71 Business Architecture67 Architecture Communication67 Enterprise Architecture66 Legacy Modernization71 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
Outbox Relay	pattern	Outbox	The process that reads pending messages from an outbox table and publishes them to a broker, providing at-least-once delivery with no distributed transaction.
Transactional Outbox Outbox Table, Reliable Event Publication, Store-and-Forward Events	pattern	Outbox	Writing an event into a table within the same transaction as the business change, then publishing it separately - so the event exists if and only if the change committed, which no ordering of two independent w…
Transactional Outbox Outbox Pattern	pattern	Outbox	Writing an event into the same database transaction as the state change, then relaying it, to eliminate the dual-write problem.