Terminology

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.

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4 terms shown.

Term	Kind	Topic	What it is
Client-Side Discovery	pattern	Service Discovery	The caller queries the registry itself and chooses an instance, rather than sending to a stable address that something else resolves.
Roblox 2021: A Coordination Layer as a Single Point of Failure Roblox 73-Hour Outage	case-study	Service Discovery	A performance problem in the shared service-discovery cluster took the entire platform down for 73 hours, and its novelty made it extremely difficult to diagnose.
Service Discovery	pattern	Service Discovery	How a caller finds a healthy instance of a callee in an environment where instances appear and disappear continuously.
Service Registry	tool	Service Discovery	The database of currently available service instances and their addresses, maintained by registration and pruned by health checking.