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

Kind Any concept785 practice729 pattern362 metric125 case-study77 tool62 protocol45

63 terms shown.

Term	Kind	Topic	What it is
Uber: Choosing a Database for Write Amplification Uber Postgres to MySQL	case-study	Technology Selection	Uber publicly documented moving from Postgres to MySQL for their workload, and the reasoning is a useful lesson in evaluating a datastore against your actual access pattern.
Utilisation Break-Even Break-Even Utilisation, Execution Model Crossover	metric	Serverless vs Containers	The sustained busy fraction at which always-on compute becomes cheaper than per-invocation billing, which turns the serverless-or-containers argument into arithmetic instead of preference.
Weighted Decision Matrix	practice	Trade-off Analysis Methods	A scoring method that rates options against weighted criteria, used to expose disagreement about priorities rather than to produce an answer.