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.

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Kind Any concept166 practice107 pattern93 case-study26 tool26 protocol22 metric14

3 terms shown.

Term	Kind	Topic	What it is
Bounded Queue	pattern	Backpressure & Flow Control	A queue with a maximum depth, which converts unbounded latency growth into an explicit rejection you can control.
Credit-Based Flow Control	protocol	Backpressure & Flow Control	A scheme where a receiver grants the sender a budget of bytes or messages it may transmit, replenished as the receiver consumes.
Reactive Streams	protocol	Backpressure & Flow Control	A specification for asynchronous stream processing in which the consumer requests a specific number of items, making backpressure part of the protocol rather than an afterthought.