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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
Anycast Routing protocol Routing & BGP Announcing the same IP address from many locations so that network routing delivers each client to the topologically nearest one.
BGP Border Gateway Protocol protocol Routing & BGP The protocol by which autonomous systems advertise which address ranges they can reach, determining how traffic finds any destination on the internet.
Meta 2021: The Outage That Locked Out Its Own Engineers Facebook October 2021 Outage case-study Routing & BGP A backbone configuration command withdrew Facebook's BGP routes globally, and the tools needed to fix it depended on the network that had just disappeared.
Route Origin Validation ROV, RPKI Origin Validation practice Routing & BGP Checking a BGP announcement's origin against a signed authorisation before accepting it, so a more specific prefix announced by the wrong network is dropped instead of winning.
Route Propagation concept Routing & BGP Automatically inserting routes learned from a VPN or dedicated connection into a route table, rather than maintaining them by hand.