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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
Kind Any concept794 practice734 pattern368 metric125 case-study77 tool62 protocol45

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Term Kind Topic What it is
Atomic Commit Protocol concept Distributed Transactions Any protocol ensuring that several participants reach the same decision to commit or abort — and a problem provably unsolvable with certainty in an asynchronous system with failures.
Google Spanner: Buying Consistency With Time TrueTime, External Consistency case-study Distributed Transactions Spanner achieves globally consistent transactions by bounding clock uncertainty with dedicated hardware and deliberately waiting out that uncertainty on commit.
Saga Compensating Transaction, Long-Running Transaction pattern Distributed Transactions A sequence of local transactions across services where failure is handled by compensating actions rather than by rollback.
Try-Confirm-Cancel TCC, Reservation Pattern pattern Distributed Transactions A three-phase distributed transaction where each participant first reserves resources, and a coordinator then confirms or cancels all reservations.
XA Transaction protocol Distributed Transactions The X/Open standard interface for two-phase commit across heterogeneous resource managers, still common in enterprise middleware and rarely the right choice for new services.