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
JWKS JSON Web Key Set	protocol	Tokens & JWTs	A published endpoint listing an issuer's current public keys, allowing resource servers to validate token signatures without a shared secret and to survive key rotation.
Refresh Token	concept	Tokens & JWTs	A long-lived credential used solely to obtain new short-lived access tokens, so sessions can persist without long-lived access tokens circulating.
Revocation Window Token Lifetime as SLA, Local Validation Trade	concept	Tokens & JWTs	The period during which a revoked credential remains accepted, which for locally-validated tokens is exactly the token lifetime - the unavoidable price of removing the identity provider from the request path.
Token Audience Validation Audience Restriction, aud Claim	practice	Tokens & JWTs	Verifying that a signed token was issued for the service consuming it, without which a legitimately obtained low-privilege token is replayable against a high-privilege service.
Token Revocation Gap	concept	Tokens & JWTs	The window between deciding a token should no longer be valid and it actually ceasing to work, which for self-contained tokens is its remaining lifetime.