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
Enterprise Integration	concept	Enterprise Integration	How applications across an estate exchange data — where the topology matters more than the technology and canonical models are the recurring trap.
Integration Change Amplification Counterparty Fan-Out, Schema Change Blast Radius	metric	Enterprise Integration	The number of independently owned systems that must change when one system revises its interface - the measure that decides whether an integration estate is expensive to change, and the one that a hub is meant…
Integration Landscape	concept	Enterprise Integration	The inventory of connections between systems, which is usually larger, less documented and more expensive than the application inventory itself.
Integration Log of Record Log as Source of Truth, Monolog Pattern	pattern	Enterprise Integration	An ordered, retained log that every consuming system reads from, replacing point-to-point integrations so that a new consumer can rebuild its entire view by replaying history instead of negotiating a back-fill.