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Terminology

991 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 areas991 Architecture Fundamentals38 Distributed Systems73 Data Architecture71 Cloud Architecture55 Networking51 API & Integration Architecture45 Reliability & Resilience40 Observability33 Performance & Capacity Engineering34 Security Architecture50 Cost Architecture & FinOps30 Business Architecture28 Architecture Communication27 Enterprise Architecture27 Legacy Modernization27 AI-Era Architecture34 Software Architecture & Engineering37 Architecture Patterns34 Architecture Decision-Making30 The Architect's Meta-Skills27 Delivery & Release Engineering20 Platform Engineering & Developer Experience20 Testing & Quality Architecture20 Data Platform Architecture20 Streaming & Real-Time Data20 Data Governance & Semantics20 Frontend & Experience Architecture20 Edge, Mobile & IoT20 Regulatory & Data Protection Architecture20 Assurance, Audit & Model Risk20
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Term Kind Topic What it is
Artifact Promotion practice Artifact Management Moving one immutable build between repositories as it earns trust, rather than rebuilding it for each environment.
Automated Release Verification practice Deployment Gates A gate that compares the new version's live signals against the old one's and decides, on stated criteria, whether to continue or revert.
Configuration Drift Detection practice IaC Modules & Drift Continuously comparing declared infrastructure against what actually exists, so out-of-band change is found on a Tuesday rather than during a rebuild.
Forward Fix practice Rollback & Forward Fix Resolving an incident by shipping a correction rather than reverting, which is the right choice exactly when reverting is not actually available.
Hermetic Build practice Build Reproducibility A build whose output is a function only of its declared inputs, so the same commit cannot produce two different artifacts.
Standard Change practice Change Management vs CD A pre-authorised class of change whose risk controls are automated and evidenced, so it does not need per-instance approval.