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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

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Term Kind Topic What it is
Consumer Group concept Event Streaming A set of consumers that cooperatively read one stream, with each partition assigned to exactly one member, so the group collectively processes every message once.
Event Streaming Distributed Log, Commit Log pattern Event Streaming A durable ordered log of facts that many independent consumers read at their own pace, retaining events after consumption rather than deleting them.
LinkedIn: Kafka and the Unified Log The Log, Kafka Origin case-study Event Streaming LinkedIn replaced a tangle of point-to-point data pipelines with a single durable log, turning an O(n²) integration problem into an O(n) one.
Offset Management concept Event Streaming How a consumer records its position in a stream, and the decision that determines whether processing is at-least-once or at-most-once.